A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

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

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

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

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

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

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

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

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Berlin's old airport.