Places stenaavel Wants to Go

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

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

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

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

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

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

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

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

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.