Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

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

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

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

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.