Places sesom Wants to Go

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

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

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

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

This striking clock tower was once part of the Singer sewing machine factory.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

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

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

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

These crumbling monastery ruins inspired a master of German Romanticism.

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.

Tallest - but not most powerful - wind turbine in the world.

One of the largest vehicles ever built is now open to the public.