Places wlongson23 Wants to Go

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

The world's biggest pet store.

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

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

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

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

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

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

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.