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A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

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

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

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

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

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.