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This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

Opulent period costumes and murals lead you on a journey through fashion history.

Beer lovers thirsty for knowledge can now visit a museum devoted to the world's largest hop-growing region.

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

The difficulty of getting a good night's sleep is an age-old affliction according to the one-of-a-kind Snoring Museum.

A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.

These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

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

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

A surprisingly detailed model of one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.