Places Lillive Wants to Go

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

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

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

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

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

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

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

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

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.