Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

The great Danube river starts here.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.