Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

A 1:2 billion-scale solar system leads visitors into this German university town.

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

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

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

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

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

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

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

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.