This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.