Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.