Places ARJR Wants to Go

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

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

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

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

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

The great Danube river starts here.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.