A coin-operated model railway tucked inside a busy train station

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

A sculpture of a courtesan towers above Lake Constance, recalling a church scandal.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

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

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

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

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders hang from a German church tower.

A 16th-century fortress that was a Nazi-era prison and execution site, now a silent memorial.

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

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.