A funerary monument for two brothers who served in the Roman cavalry.

This gateway to subterranean Hanover plays jazz, pop and rock to surprised passersby.

This unusual sculpture depicts how coins were made when minting was done by hand.

A famous big wave from Japan serves as a tribute to the victims of the disastrous Elbe flood.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

A hole in the floor of this chapel is said to have been created by a footprint of the devil.

A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.

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

The monument honors the first (and for a long time, only) African-born philosopher to teach at a German university.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

A statue dedicated to the antihero of the Nibelung legend.

Celebrating the Eucharist, the day is a legal holiday in many parts of Germany.

A triumphal steel arch on the side of a German mountain.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.