Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

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

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

His body was found mysteriously preserved in a Swedish mine over 40 years after his initial disappearance.

The first overseas server for Facebook in Sweden's tundra.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

Despite the groans of archaeologists, this astounding groups of Bronze Age petroglyphs have been painted red for tourists.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.