Potsdam, Germany
Sanssouci Palace
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Potsdam, Germany
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
Berlin, Germany
The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Duisburg, Germany
This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.
Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany
This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
Dresden, Germany
A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.
Berlin, Germany
Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Lemgo, Germany
An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.
Naples, Italy
A rococo room covered entirely in porcelain originally constructed for another royal residence.
San Francisco, California
A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.
San Francisco, California
A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.
San Francisco, California
An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.
South San Francisco, California
A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."
San Francisco, California
San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.
San Francisco, California
A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.
San Francisco, California
The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.
San Francisco, California
At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.
San Francisco, California
A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.
San Francisco, California
A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.