Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

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

A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

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

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.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

The great Danube river starts here.

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

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.