Places markggn Wants to Go

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”