Places soimlostagain Wants to Go

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

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.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

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

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

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.