Jülich, Germany
Hexenturm Jülich
A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.
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Jülich, Germany
A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.
Hamburg, Germany
A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.
Stuttgart, Germany
Inside this discotheque resides a unique memorial dedicated to one club-goers favorite pet.
Flensburg, Germany
Located in the middle of public park, this cave built in the early 19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus.
Göttingen, Germany
The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.
Hemer, Germany
Wooden pathways run through this rocky landscape, which legend says was created when a dwarven king pulled down his own castle to stop raiding giants.
Freudenstadt, Germany
Inside this German disco, visitors can take a literal ride on the dance floor.
Waldenburg, Germany
A wonderfully versatile natural history curio cabinet preserved since the 1840s.
Wiesbaden, Germany
A historic casino where Dostoyevsky is said to have lost it all on a single spin of the roulette wheel.
Goslar, Germany
A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.
Munich, Germany
A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.
Erfurt, Germany
Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.
Lemgo, Germany
This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.
Rostock, Germany
A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.
Regensburg, Germany
The world's first and only museum dedicated to dachshunds.
Göttingen, Germany
One of the oldest student jails in Germany.
Munich, Germany
This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.
Nuremberg, Germany
This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.
Cologne, Germany
The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.
Darmstadt, Germany
The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.
Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.
Munich, Germany
Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.
Feucht, Germany
Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!