A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

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

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

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

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.