Places ProstheticShrew Wants to Go

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

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

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

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

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.