Places meadowmouse Wants to Go

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

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

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

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

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.