Nienhagen, Germany
Gespensterwald (Ghost Forest)
Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.
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Nienhagen, Germany
Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.
Cologne, Germany
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
Stuttgart, Germany
This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Heidelberg, Germany
It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.
Dresden, Germany
An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.
Waldeck, Germany
As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.
Heidelberg, Germany
This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.
Zittau, Germany
This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.
Berlin, Germany
Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.
Zweibrücken, Germany
A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.
Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Darmstadt, Germany
Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.
Sögel, Germany
There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.
Nördlingen, Germany
A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.
Munich, Germany
A subterranean display of public art and architecture.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Trassenheide, Germany
The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Bad Schandau, Germany
An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.
Berlin, Germany
At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.
Munich, Germany
This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.