Places markggn Wants to Go

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

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

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

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

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

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

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.