Places yoauntie Wants to Go

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

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

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

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

This jellyfish provides clean water for an entire Dutch province.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The middle finger of modernity.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

The only surviving piece of Copenhagen's 16th-century defensive wall.

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

Visitors are treated to a stained glass kaleidoscope interior inside this work of art.

From buck blood to Theriak miracle tonic, this collection of Renaissance chemist's gear look's like a wizard's pantry.

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.