Places emiliejayne Wants to Go

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

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

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

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

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

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