Places TheRoadProvides Wants to Go

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

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

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

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

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

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.