A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

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

Residing along a busy thoroughfare, this sculpture urges passersby to consider the future.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

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

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.