From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

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

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

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

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

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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

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

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

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

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

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

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

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

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

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

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