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

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

A scale rocket of an Ariane 5 rocket serves as a monument to a pioneer of space science.

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

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

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

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

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

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

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

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

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

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

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

A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.