A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

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

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

This magnificent church allows travelers along one of Germany's busiest roadways a chance to rest and reflect.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

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

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.