A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

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.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

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

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

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

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

A varied collection of brains in alcohol.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

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

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.