Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

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

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

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

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.