Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.

This is part of the Francke Foundation Museum, a curiosity cabinet filled with different scientific and natural wonders.

Learn the incredible story of how an unassuming spa town was transformed into one of the world’s largest uranium mining sites.

This mine is home to the largest man-made hole in Europe.

A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

This baroque palace displays an impressive collection of taxidermy, art, and rare objects from the days of courtly hunting.

This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."

The largest mosque in Germany.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

This impressive castle looms over small German town.

One of the oldest student jails in Germany.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

This concrete church spent a period of its history as a World War II bunker.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

Opulent period costumes and murals lead you on a journey through fashion history.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.