Places clpartin Wants to Go

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

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

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

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

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

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

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

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

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.