Places rereads247 Wants to Go

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

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

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

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

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

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

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

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

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

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

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

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

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