Places obstakel Wants to Go

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

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

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

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

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

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

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

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

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

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.