A hole in the floor of this chapel is said to have been created by a footprint of the devil.

A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.

The monument honors the first (and for a long time, only) African-born philosopher to teach at a German university.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.

This German monument honors the so-called "Prince of Mathematicians."

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

A statue dedicated to the antihero of the Nibelung legend.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

This remarkable parking garage in Darmstadt has lived several lives and still contains remnants of its World War I past.

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

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

Commemorating a unique medieval profession: men who collected feces.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

This inconspicuous pharmacy went down in history as the first gas station in the world after fueling the first road trip ever taken.

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

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.