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

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

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

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

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

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

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

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

Germany's tiniest institution of education.

A historic casino where Dostoyevsky is said to have lost it all on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

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

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

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Most powerful transmitter in Germany only broadcasts in the French language.

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."