Places slecnave Wants to Go

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

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

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

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

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 wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

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

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

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.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

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

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