The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

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

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

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

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

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

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.