Places magdalenehaeberle Wants to Go

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Two unremarkable-looking rocks on a cobblestone street are actually ancient wanderers; one a 150-million-year-old limestone, the other a 1.8-billion-year-old granite.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

A small museum dedicated to the small—but mighty—Nürnberger Rostbratwurst.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

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

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Abandoned transformer house on a country road tells of a time when art and politics were closely linked.

Rusted humanoid clutching a laptop and trailing cables.

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.