Places abigaylerasmussen Wants to Go

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.