Places GRH Wants to Go

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

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

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.