Rott am Inn, Germany
Skeletons of Rott am Inn
These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.
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Rott am Inn, Germany
These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.
Halberstadt, Germany
Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.
Dresden, Germany
An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.
Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.
Dresden, Germany
Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Colditz, Germany
An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.
Rottweil, Germany
Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.
Flintsbach am Inn, Germany
A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.
Kirnitzschtal, Germany
A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.
Mettlach, Germany
Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."
Munich, Germany
This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.
Passau, Germany
Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.
Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Lübeck, Germany
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Wiesenthau, Germany
An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Nuremberg, Germany
This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.
Netzschkau, Germany
The largest brick bridge in the world.
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.
Berlin, Germany
This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.
Passau, Germany
When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.