Places Erdferkel Wants to Go

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

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

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

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.

No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Abandoned transformer house on a country road tells of a time when art and politics were closely linked.

A church with a detached tower, believed to have been cast aside by the devil himself.

A 16th-century fortress that was a Nazi-era prison and execution site, now a silent memorial.

A rare cold-water geyser that bubbles to life every half hour.

In the middle of a wonderful recreational park, this memorial reminds us of the dark past of this place.

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.

Legend claims these are the heads of executed criminals, magically turned to stone.

Former Gestapo prison turned memorial museum.

Graffiti-clad ruins of an abandoned 1980s industrial site with a toxic past are nestled among residential houses.

A memorial dedicated to those who lost their lives working in what is now a massive tourist attraction.

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

A park dedicated to the titular writer filled with references to his work.