Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

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

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

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

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

This remarkable parking garage in Darmstadt has lived several lives and still contains remnants of its World War I past.

The last Tsar of Russia constructed this private church just so he could attend services when visiting his wife's hometown.

A memorial for a racecar driver who died while trying to set a land speed record on the autobahn.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.