Donaueschingen, Germany
Donauquelle
The great Danube river starts here.
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Donaueschingen, Germany
The great Danube river starts here.
Haigerloch, Germany
The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.
Böblingen, Germany
Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.
Tübingen, Germany
The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.
Stuttgart, Germany
This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.
Stuttgart, Germany
A funerary monument for two brothers who served in the Roman cavalry.
Stuttgart, Germany
An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.
Stuttgart, Germany
Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Cemetery honors Americans who died during WWII and is the resting place of Gen. George S. Patton.
Hanover, Germany
An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.
Hanover, Germany
This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.
Lübeck, Germany
A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.
Lübeck, Germany
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Lübeck, Germany
A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.
Lübeck, Germany
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Bremen, Germany
Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.
Bremen, Germany
The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.
Lübeck, Germany
The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.
Schwerin, Germany
A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.
Göttingen, Germany
The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.
Göttingen, Germany
Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.
Göttingen, Germany
A collection of antique telescopes dot the halls of the university's astrophysics department.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.