Places starsea Wants to Go

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

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

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.

A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.