Places Titi Wants to Go

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Largely overlooked, this little fountain on Museum Island is a whimsical tribute to a Prussian king nicknamed the “Fatty Flounder.”

Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.

This kitsch-forward diner is dedicated to an almost-forgotten “one-cent” prototype of okonomiyaki.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.