Places Hannah Wants to Go

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

A tiny, intricate model railway system.

A museum dedicated to telling lies in service of the truth.

A unique showroom for bathroom fixtures featuring a giant toilet observation deck.

This small train ride offers stellar views of the Grand Garden Palace.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.

Blending modern art with Baroque architecture, this wondrous mosaic grotto serves as the late artist's final creation.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

Keep your eyes out for this "ghost" and walking pun.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

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

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

Several rooms flooded with 35mm film reel.