Munich, Germany
Orlando di Lasso Statue
This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.
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Munich, Germany
This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.
Bretten, Germany
One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.
Bielefeld, Germany
According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.
Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany
A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.
Essen, Germany
The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."
Amberg, Germany
This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.
Koblenz, Germany
This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.
Peenemünde, Germany
The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
Berlin, Germany
The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.
Cologne, Germany
If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.
Eisenach, Germany
The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.
Laußig, Germany
This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.
Berlin, Germany
Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.
Berlin, Germany
A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.
Bremen, Germany
The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.
Munich, Germany
This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.
Colditz, Germany
An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.
Karlsruhe, Germany
A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.
Hamelin, Germany
The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.
Regensburg, Germany
From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.
Essen, Germany
The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.
Heidelberg, Germany
Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.