Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

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

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

This viaduct serves as a reminder of World War II.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

The world's first motorway was used as a racetrack until the late 1990s.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.

Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

Next to the well-known retaining weir "Hochablass" is the former raft port for the city of Augsburg.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

Deep in the forest next to Augsburg are abandoned bunkers and bullet traps from the region's military past.

What appears to be an ordinary bridge is actually a rare aqueduct.

This fountain tucked away in a park is the focal point of the only "Green Basilica" in Germany.