The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

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

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

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

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

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.

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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.