Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

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

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

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

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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