Places Awaters83 Wants to Go

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

The world's first and only museum dedicated to dachshunds.

Wooden pathways run through this rocky landscape, which legend says was created when a dwarven king pulled down his own castle to stop raiding giants.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

Nestled within a German forest is an intriguing, growing rock.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.