This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

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

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

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

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

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

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

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

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

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

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

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

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