Places maurverick Wants to Go

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.