Munich, Germany
Jeweled Skeleton of Saint Munditia
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
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Munich, Germany
Umschreibung
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
Felsenkirche (Crag Church)
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Leipzig, Germany
Löffelfamilie (Spoon Family)
One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.
Bremen, Germany
Bleikeller
Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
Hamburg, Germany
Blankenese Shipwrecks
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Lübeck, Germany
Astronomical Clock at St. Mary's Church
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Hamburg, Germany
Hall of Fame Heimfeld
One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.
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Berlin, Germany
Wunderkammer Olbricht at me Collectors Room
A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Museum of Unheard-of Things
A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Botanical Garden
Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.
Berlin, Germany
Teufelsberg
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Berlin, Germany
Luisenfriedhof II
One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.
Berlin, Germany
The Clock of Flowing Time
An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.
Berlin, Germany
Buchstabenmuseum
A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.
Berlin, Germany
Führerbunker Parking Lot
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Berlin, Germany
The Bebelplatz
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
Design Panoptikum
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Lohmen, Germany
The Bastei
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Dresden, Germany
Pillnitz Camellia
An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.
Dresden, Germany
Grünes Gewölbe (Green Vault)
The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.
Dresden, Germany
Münzkabinett
The “Coin Cabinet of Dresden” houses a collection of over 300,000 numismatic artifacts, one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Dresden, Germany
Yenidze
Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.
Dresden, Germany
Dresden Codex
To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.
