Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

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

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

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

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

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

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

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

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

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

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