Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

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

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

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

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

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.