Places clpartin Wants to Go

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

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

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.

A historic casino where Dostoyevsky is said to have lost it all on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

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

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.

This highrise residential building looks mundane, but hides a water tower and WWII bunker.

This concrete church spent a period of its history as a World War II bunker.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

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

One of the oldest student jails in Germany.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.