Bingen, Germany
Mouse Tower
Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.
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Bingen, Germany
Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.
Karlsruhe, Germany
A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.
Garching bei München, Germany
Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.
Duisburg, Germany
The world's biggest pet store.
Lübbenau/Spreewald, Germany
A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.
Gommern, Germany
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Siegen, Germany
The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.
Kalkar, Germany
An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.
Bremen, Germany
Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
Kirnitzschtal, Germany
A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.
Zweibrücken, Germany
A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.
Berlin, Germany
The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.
Dresden, Germany
An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.
Berlin, Germany
Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.
Chiemsee, Germany
Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.
Trassenheide, Germany
The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.
Dingolfing, Germany
In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.
Potsdam, Germany
Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.
Berlin, Germany
One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.
Frankfurt, Germany
This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’
Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Hamburg, Germany
A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.
Sögel, Germany
There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.