Places soimlostagain Wants to Go

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

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

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

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

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

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

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

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

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.