As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

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

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

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

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

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

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

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

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

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

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 collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

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

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.