A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

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

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."