Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

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

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

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

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

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.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

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

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

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

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

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

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.