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

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

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

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

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

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

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

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