Places Awaters83 Wants to Go

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

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

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

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

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

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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