This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

The last Tsar of Russia constructed this private church just so he could attend services when visiting his wife's hometown.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

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

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

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

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

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

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

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.

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

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

Berlin's old airport.