Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

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

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

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

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

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

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

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

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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