Places tsrzad Wants to Go

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

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.

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

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

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