This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Be it nature, art, or abandoned military architecture this eclectic German "museum" has you covered.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.