Hamburg, Germany
Hans Albers Monument Reliefs
Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.
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Hamburg, Germany
Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.
Hamburg, Germany
An evolving artwork that began in 1996 and is scheduled to continue until... 2496!
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Hamburg, Germany
A suburban monument preserves the faces of twenty murdered Jewish boys and girls.
Hamburg, Germany
Europe’s first football club cemetery, where lifelong supporters remain close to their team even after death.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Hamburg, Germany
Multiple versions of this horned sculpture, tied to local legend, have been stolen over the years.
Bispingen, Germany
A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.
Netzschkau, Germany
The largest brick bridge in the world.
Lich, Germany
A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.
Kasendorf, Germany
For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.
Leipzig, Germany
This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.
Leipzig, Germany
This small museum takes the business of clowning quite seriously.
Leipzig, Germany
One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.
Leipzig, Germany
This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.
Büren, Germany
This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.
Magdeburg, Germany
This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Amöneburg, Germany
Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.
Hildesheim, Germany
The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.
Halle (Saale), Germany
This is part of the Francke Foundation Museum, a curiosity cabinet filled with different scientific and natural wonders.
Waldeck, Germany
As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.
Goseck, Germany
A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.
Halberstadt, Germany
Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.