Architecture in Germany

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

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

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

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

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

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

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

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

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.