Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

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

Berlin's old airport.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.