Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

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.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

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

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

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

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

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

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.