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A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

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

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

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

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

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

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

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

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

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.