Königswinter, Germany
Nibelungenhalle
This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Medical History Hamburg
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Hildesheim, Germany
The Thousand-Year Rose
The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.
Oranienburg, Germany
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
Oberhausen, Germany
Gasometer Oberhausen
An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.
Hanover, Germany
Marktkirche
Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
Marx and Engels Forum
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Bernkastel-Kues, Germany
Spitzhäuschen
This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.
Potsdam, Germany
Alexandrowka
A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.
Schipkau, Germany
Bagger 258: The "Blue Wonder"
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Halbe, Germany
Tropical Islands Resort
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Dresden, Germany
Schwebebahn Dresden
A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.
Permanently Closed
Berlin, Germany
Hubertusbad
An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.
Hamburg, Germany
St. Nicholas' Church
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Darmstadt, Germany
Waldspirale
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Schonach im Schwarzwald, Germany
World's Largest Cuckoo Clock
A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.
Berlin, Germany
Abandoned Iraqi Embassy
When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.
Munich, Germany
Asamkirche
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Berlin, Germany
Soviet Graffiti in the Reichstag
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Munich, Germany
Viscardigasse
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Zinnowitz, Germany
Submerged Gondola
An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
Dachau, Germany
Dachau Concentration Camp
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Berlin, Germany
Hohenzollern Crypt in the Berlin Cathedral
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
