A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

This impressive castle looms over small German town.

Wooden pathways run through this rocky landscape, which legend says was created when a dwarven king pulled down his own castle to stop raiding giants.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

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

A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.

This fountain tucked away in a park is the focal point of the only "Green Basilica" in Germany.

This ornate Weser Renaissance house was also the home of an infamous witch hunter.

One of the oldest student jails in Germany.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

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

Opulent period costumes and murals lead you on a journey through fashion history.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

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

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