Places alxndr Wants to Go

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.

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

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

This tiny German village has staked claim to being the center of the union following Brexit.

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

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

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

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

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