Places libra5310 Wants to Go

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

This poignant tribute to the White Rose movement showcases artifacts related to the heroic anti-Nazi struggle.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

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

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders hang from a German church tower.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

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

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.