Places uwes41 Wants to Go

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

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.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

The world's first kindergarten.

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

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

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

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

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.

This brass doorknob is a nod to a local literary figure.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

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

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

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

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.