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This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

A scale rocket of an Ariane 5 rocket serves as a monument to a pioneer of space science.

One of two electrical towers in Germany that have a pathway constructed through the tower's legs.

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

A triumphal steel arch on the side of a German mountain.

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

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

The first recognized Neanderthal remains were found in this now-lost cave in 1856.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

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

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

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.