Places stephmcmahon Wants to Go

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

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

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

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

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

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

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.