Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

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

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

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

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

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

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

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

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

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.