The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

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.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

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

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

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.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

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

One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

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

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

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

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

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

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

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