Colditz, Germany
Colditz Castle
An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.
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Colditz, Germany
An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.
Hettingen, Germany
Opulent period costumes and murals lead you on a journey through fashion history.
Feucht, Germany
Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.
Dresden, Germany
An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.
Detmold, Germany
This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.
Blaubeuren, Germany
In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.
Sinsheim, Germany
It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.
Cologne, Germany
The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.
Berlin, Germany
A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.
Lichtenhain/Bergbahn, Germany
Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.
Munich, Germany
A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Bad Dürkheim, Germany
World's largest barrel containing an inn.
Heidelberg, Germany
The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.
Kehl, Germany
First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.
Schwerin, Germany
A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.
Wiesenthau, Germany
An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.
Heligoland, Germany
This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.
Augsburg, Germany
According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.
Kasendorf, Germany
For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.
Hanover, Germany
The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."
Waldeck, Germany
A century-long search for a church that was never there.
Hanover, Germany
An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.
Salzburg, Austria
At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.