Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

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

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

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

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

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

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

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

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

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

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

These ancient giraffes are the largest known animal petroglyphs in the world.