Mönchengladbach, Germany
Wasserturmhochhaus Großheide
This highrise residential building looks mundane, but hides a water tower and WWII bunker.
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Mönchengladbach, Germany
This highrise residential building looks mundane, but hides a water tower and WWII bunker.
Goseck, Germany
A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.
Naumburg, Germany
Is this statue at Naumberg Cathedral the fairest of them all?
Sinsheim, Germany
It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.
Mechernich, Germany
This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.
Dresden, Germany
Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.
Berlin, Germany
The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.
Bad Doberan, Germany
A steam powered train that runs on city streets.
Berlin, Germany
This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.
Berlin, Germany
This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.
Berlin, Germany
The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.
Berlin, Germany
The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.
Munich, Germany
A subterranean display of public art and architecture.
Essen, Germany
The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.
Berlin, Germany
Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.
Trassenheide, Germany
The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.
Berlin, Germany
A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.
Berlin, Germany
The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.
Nordstrand, Germany
A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.
Berlin, Germany
One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.
Frankfurt, Germany
The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.
Potsdam, Germany
Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.
Quedlinburg, Germany
The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.