Places piegem Wants to Go

Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.

This private museum is packed with 20th-century traffic and technology artifacts.

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

This remarkable parking garage in Darmstadt has lived several lives and still contains remnants of its World War I past.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

What appears to be an ordinary bridge is actually a rare aqueduct.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.