Places stephmcmahon Wants to Go

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

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

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

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

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

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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

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

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