This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.

This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.