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

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

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

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

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

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

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 delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

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

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

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

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

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.