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Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

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

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

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

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.