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These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

From morgue to urn, watch the whole process at this unusual educational attraction.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

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

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

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

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

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

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

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

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

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.