Places fiaris Wants to Go

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

Located in the middle of public park, this cave built in the early 19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus.

A wonderfully versatile natural history curio cabinet preserved since the 1840s.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

This mysterious pig iron pillar does not rust, despite being weathered by the elements for centuries.

This rock resembling a turned-up boot has become the symbol of St. Ingbert.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.