An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

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

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

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

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

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

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

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

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

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.