A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

An homage to the humble watering can.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

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

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

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.