Places meltingknight Wants to Go

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

The world's biggest pet store.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.