An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

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

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

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

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

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

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

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

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

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

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.