A pair of giant stone heads represent the ancient Roman saints beheaded here.

The bones of the Biblical Magi traveled to Constantinople and Milan before landing in their current home inside an elaborate golden reliquary in the Cologne Cathedral.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

A park where the Inn and Ilz rivers join the Danube as it slinks off into Austria.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

A small museum dedicated to the small—but mighty—Nürnberger Rostbratwurst.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

Once believed to be a sacred Roman legionary symbol, this bronze figure inspired the 1954 novel 'The Eagle of the Ninth.'

This natural history collection contains the bones of a circus elephant that seem to be chasing a whale skeleton.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

This hill is all that remains of Cambridge’s former castle.

Lines on the pillar of Heidelberg's Karl-Theodor Bridge record the dramatic heights of past floods.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.