Places KristinShu Wants to Go

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.

WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.

Celebrating the works of a beloved Italian actor, known for such cult films as 'They Call Me Trinity' and 'Watch Out, We’re Mad!'

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

One of the oldest student jails in Germany.

Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.

A collection of 4,000 thimbles that's more versatile than one might imagine.

This impressive castle looms over small German town.

What appears to be an ordinary bridge is actually a rare aqueduct.

This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

Germany's longest suspension rope bridge.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.