Places fhayes Wants to Go

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

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

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.