Places Sarah Jones Wants to Go

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.