1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

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

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

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

An homage to the humble watering can.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."