The community gathered on this stone table to make important decisions, but it was also the site of witch trials.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

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

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 larger-than-life monument to the inventor of the Bunsen burner.

This easily overlooked statue depicts an important woman in Mannheim's history.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

Visitors may notice something strange walking through this quaint German town.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

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

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

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

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

A museum dedicated Germany's favorite drink and most well-known festival.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."