Places rosieL Wants to Go

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

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

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

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

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

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

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

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