Places janwo Wants to Go

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

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

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

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

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

The difficulty of getting a good night's sleep is an age-old affliction according to the one-of-a-kind Snoring Museum.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

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

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

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

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

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

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

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.