When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

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

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

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

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

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

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

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

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

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

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

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

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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