Places babewithclaws Wants to Go

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

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

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

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

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

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

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

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.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.