Places meltingknight Wants to Go

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

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

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

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

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

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

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

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

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

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

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

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

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

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

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

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.