The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

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

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

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.

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.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

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

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

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

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.