Places flaneux Wants to Go

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

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

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

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.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

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

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

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