A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

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 footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

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

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

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 former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

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

The great Danube river starts here.

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

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.