This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

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

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

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

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

Abandoned figurines adorn a small plot on the side of a craft market's entrance.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

A colorful "forest" made entirely from three tons of recycled plastic waste.