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A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

This inconspicuous pharmacy went down in history as the first gas station in the world after fueling the first road trip ever taken.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A larger-than-life monument to the inventor of the Bunsen burner.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

A model train wonderland hidden beneath Gare de l'Est station.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a marker honors the creation story of a proud fictional culture.

On the right bank of the Grand River a plaque remembers an imaginary painter who once awaited his youth.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.