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.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

A top-secret bunker now turned museum, is an eerie look at what life would have looked like in the event of nuclear war.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

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

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The great Danube river starts here.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.