Hamburg, Germany
Blankenese Shipwrecks
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
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Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Berlin, Germany
This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.
Templin, Germany
The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Pfronten, Germany
Two nations form a rare four-sided border at the peak of a mountain, philosophical questions result.
Lübeck, Germany
The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
Wonsees, Germany
These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Mühltal, Germany
The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.
Bad Schandau, Germany
An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.
Wunsiedel, Germany
Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.
Blankenburg (Harz), Germany
A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.
Magdeburg, Germany
The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."
Darmstadt, Germany
A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.
Lübbenau/Spreewald, Germany
A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Quedlinburg, Germany
The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.
Netzschkau, Germany
The largest brick bridge in the world.
Kasendorf, Germany
For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.
Nagold, Germany
A German town is growing a building out of trees.
Neustadt am Kulm, Germany
A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.
Munich, Germany
The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.
Binz, Germany
A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.