Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.