Places yjunod Wants to Go

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Berlin's old airport.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

Skulls and skeletons are omnipresent in this church dedicated to souls trapped in purgatory.

An impressive bridge over a ravine also served as an aqueduct.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.