Places Lillive Wants to Go

Antique frame collection with 2,400 frames.

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

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

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

The world's biggest pet store.

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.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

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

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

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

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.