Places markggn Wants to Go

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The great Danube river starts here.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.