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wittc2

I just make lists of places to go to, and take pictures of the signs

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Narsarsuaq, Greenland

Arboretum Groenlandicum

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

Camp Century (Project Iceworm)

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

Dylan

Lakki Cinema

This Greek cinema was architecturally inspired by Mussolini's vision of a fascist Mediterranean utopia.

Added by Sporadicus

Dromeas (The Runner)

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

Aika

Mikonos, Greece

Terrace of the Lions

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

philoursmars

Added by philoursmars

The Temple of Dionysos

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

emdrichardson

Added by emdrichardson

Leipzig, Germany

Löffelfamilie (Spoon Family)

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

jfrank

Added by jfrank

Garching bei München, Germany

Parabolic Slides

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

Added by astrophysicist2b

German Epilepsy Museum

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

treeswithknees

Added by treeswithknees

Kassel, Germany

Walter De Maria's Vertical Earth Kilometer

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

jamesb

Added by jamesb

Waidhofen, Germany

Hinterkaifeck Memorial

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Frankfurt, Germany

Luftbrückendenkmal: Monument to the Berlin Airlift

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

Christine Williamson

Added by Christine Williamson

Hamburg, Germany

Herbertstraße

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Added by DoctorMoog42

Bottrop, Germany

Tetrahedron in Bottrop

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

cavok86

Added by cavok86

Giessen, Germany

Mathematikum

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

Christine Williamson

Added by Christine Williamson

Duisburg, Germany

Zoo Zajac

The world's biggest pet store.

Lohheide, Germany

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Added by fairlyn17

Dessau-Roßlau, Germany

Abandoned Crematorium and Cemetery

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

Christine Williamson

Added by Christine Williamson

Nuremberg, Germany

Ehekarussell

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

entropy69

Added by entropy69

Hamburg, Germany

German Food Additives Museum

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

Added by LandThrill

Schleiden, Germany

Ordensburg Vogelsang

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Plastinarium

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

xoox

Templin, Germany

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Traffic Signs

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

Added by basaltena

Wuppertal, Germany

Lego Bridge

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

lewblank

Added by lewblank