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Giessen, Germany

Mathematikum

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

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Gießkannenmuseum (Watering Can Museum)

An homage to the humble watering can.

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The Three Gossips

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

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Grave of Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

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

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Schlammbeiser Statue

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

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Elefantenklo

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

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Heiliger Stein (Holy Stone)

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

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