Places soimlostagain Wants to Go

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

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

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

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

The world's biggest pet store.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

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

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

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

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

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

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.

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

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

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