Places grantavery Wants to Go

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

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

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

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

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

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

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.