Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.

World's only telecommunication tower with a wooden pinnacle.

This German monument honors the so-called "Prince of Mathematicians."

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

The metal-free wooden towers of Brück.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

This mysterious pig iron pillar does not rust, despite being weathered by the elements for centuries.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

The remains of three Luftwaffe launch pads designed for manned anti-aircraft missiles.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

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