Places fhayes Wants to Go

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

The great Danube river starts here.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

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

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

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

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

A taxus-tree to which Julius Caesar reputedly tied his horse.