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The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

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

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

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

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.

The site of the original experiment that would be used to disprove the theory of luminiferous ether.

Towering sandstone rock formations where 'The Chronicles of Narnia' was filmed.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

This giant glowing "beanpole" adds much-needed pops of color to an otherwise drab power plant.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.