Places emiliejayne Wants to Go

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

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

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.