This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

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

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

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

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

This red London phone booth once stood in front of Buckingham Palace and was used by the queen.

A miniature model of what will be the world's largest telescope.

A surprisingly detailed model of one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.

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

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

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.