A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

Be it nature, art, or abandoned military architecture this eclectic German "museum" has you covered.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.