Places stephmcmahon Wants to Go

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

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

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

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.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

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

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

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