Places michaelamiller Wants to Go

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.