Places Petronille Wants to Go

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

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

The largest mosque in Germany.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

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

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.