Places vitaminkate Wants to Go

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

This mysterious pig iron pillar does not rust, despite being weathered by the elements for centuries.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

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

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.