Places wheretonext Wants to Go

This island only appears in winter once the surrounding waters have frozen over.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

This Finnish town on the Arctic Circle is trademarked as the Official Hometown of Santa Claus.

This lonely rock has been turned into a character loved and feared by children.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A second hand shop that enabled the plan of Germany's most iconic conman.

One of the few Tudor palaces in Germany, which hosted a historic WWII meeting.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.

Relaxed riverfront dive bar where you can also rent a boat.

The most peculiar part of Berlin's public transit network is an on-demand rowboat.

This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

A Syrian family keeps memories of their homeland alive at this sweet shop.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.