Wierschem, Germany
Eltz Castle - Burg Eltz
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
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Wierschem, Germany
This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.
Berlin, Germany
Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.
Hanover, Germany
An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.
Frauenwald, Germany
This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.
Gommern, Germany
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Leipzig, Germany
This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.
Herzberg am Harz, Germany
What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.
Oranienburg, Germany
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.
Lohheide, Germany
A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Augsburg, Germany
This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.
Augsburg, Germany
According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Lich, Germany
A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.
Leipzig, Germany
This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.
Bad Schussenried, Germany
This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.
Sierksdorf, Germany
A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.