Places saschamoses924 Wants to Go

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

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.

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

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

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