Places ssrismith Wants to Go

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

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

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

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

Be it nature, art, or abandoned military architecture this eclectic German "museum" has you covered.

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

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.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.