Places uwes41 Wants to Go

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

An abstract and eyecatching clock/fountain is the centerpiece of this little-known German city.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

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

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

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

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Visitors may notice something strange walking through this quaint German town.

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

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

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 small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

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 giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.