An underground wonderland in Iowa.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

This airport currywurst stand is made out of retro airplane parts.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.