Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

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

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

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 strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

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

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The great Danube river starts here.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

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.