Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.