A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

The former Nazi concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

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

Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

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

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.