Places R Sevens Wants to Go

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."

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

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.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

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

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.