Places poppyhuskisson Wants to Go

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

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

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

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

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

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

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

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

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.