Potsdam, Germany
Grave of the Potato King
If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.
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Potsdam, Germany
If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.
Strausberg, Germany
A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.
Rendsburg, Germany
One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.
Göttingen, Germany
Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.
Mainz, Germany
While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.
Kiel, Germany
The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.
Lichtenhain/Bergbahn, Germany
Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.
Augsburg, Germany
In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.
Zossen, Germany
Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.
Hinterweidenthal, Germany
It's said the devil used this mushroom rock as a table for a late-night meal.
Zeitz, Germany
A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.
Ulm, Germany
Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.
Cologne, Germany
How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?
Eichenau, Germany
This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.
Cologne, Germany
The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.
Grainau, Germany
A beautiful gorge filled with streams and waterfalls.
Niederfinow, Germany
This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.
Hamburg, Germany
A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.
Darmstadt, Germany
1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.
Bad Doberan, Germany
A steam powered train that runs on city streets.
Wehringen, Germany
Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.
Wiesbaden, Germany
This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.
Usterling, Germany
Nestled within a German forest is an intriguing, growing rock.
Goseck, Germany
A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.