Places WindupMan Wants to Go

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

A scale rocket of an Ariane 5 rocket serves as a monument to a pioneer of space science.

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders hang from a German church tower.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

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

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.