A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

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

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

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

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.