The largest brick bridge in the world.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

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

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

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

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.