A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

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

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

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

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

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

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.