Lübeck, Germany
The Devil's Stone
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.
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Lübeck, Germany
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.
Lübeck, Germany
Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.
Lübeck, Germany
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Hamburg, Germany
This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.
Wolnzach, Germany
Beer lovers thirsty for knowledge can now visit a museum devoted to the world's largest hop-growing region.
Rott am Inn, Germany
These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.
Wielenbach, Germany
A hole in the floor of this chapel is said to have been created by a footprint of the devil.
Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Eichenau, Germany
This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Garching bei München, Germany
Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.
Munich, Germany
German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.
Munich, Germany
One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
Munich, Germany
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Munich, Germany
An unofficial monument to the late King of Pop sits at the base of a Renaissance composer's statue
Munich, Germany
This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.
Munich, Germany
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.