Schleswig, Germany
The Bog Bodies at the Schleswig-Holstein Landesmuseum
Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.
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Lübeck, Germany
Danse Macabre Stained Glass
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Lübeck, Germany
The Broken Bells of St. Mary's
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Schwerin, Germany
The Ducal Family Crypt in the Church of St. Nikolai
Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.
Hamburg, Germany
Harry’s Harbor Bazaar
A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.
Hamburg, Germany
Impaled Skull of Klaus Stortebeker
Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Hamburg, Germany
Herbertstraße
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Medical History Hamburg
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Hamburg, Germany
Wälderhaus
This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.
Lohheide, Germany
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.
Hanover, Germany
Leibniz's Stepped Reckoner
An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.
Göttingen, Germany
Göttingen Royal University Observatory
Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.
Göttingen, Germany
Grave of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.
Göttingen, Germany
Planetenweg Göttingen
A 1:2 billion-scale solar system leads visitors into this German university town.
Göttingen, Germany
The Göttingen Collection of Mathematical Models
These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.
Göttingen, Germany
Göttingen University Astronomy Collection
A collection of antique telescopes dot the halls of the university's astrophysics department.
Göttingen, Germany
Physicalisches Cabinet
This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.
Kassel, Germany
GRIMMWELT Kassel (Grimm World Kassel)
A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.
Kassel, Germany
Museum of Sepulchral Culture
This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.
Kassel, Germany
Walter De Maria's Vertical Earth Kilometer
A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.
Amöneburg, Germany
Amöneburg
Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.
Giessen, Germany
Mathematikum
This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.
Giessen, Germany
Grave of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.
Lich, Germany
Heiliger Stein (Holy Stone)
A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.
