Giessen, Germany
Schlammbeiser Statue
Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.
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Giessen, Germany
Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.
Giessen, Germany
A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.
Lich, Germany
A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.
Walferdange, Luxembourg
This cryptic monument honors a mysterious dead woman, despite her identity being lost centuries ago.
Bonn, Germany
A pair of giant stone heads represent the ancient Roman saints beheaded here.
Heidelberg, Germany
This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.
Heidelberg, Germany
It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Dietzenbach, Germany
This demonic monument commemorates a carving destroyed in World War II.
Frankfurt, Germany
Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.
Frankfurt, Germany
The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.
Frankfurt, Germany
After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.
Mühltal, Germany
The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.
Koblenz, Germany
This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Worms, Germany
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Munich, Germany
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Bremerhaven, Germany
The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.