A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.

Wooden pathways run through this rocky landscape, which legend says was created when a dwarven king pulled down his own castle to stop raiding giants.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

The last Tsar of Russia constructed this private church just so he could attend services when visiting his wife's hometown.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

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.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

In the center of Wrocław's old meat market stands a somber tribute to the city's livestock.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.