One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

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

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

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

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.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

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

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

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

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

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

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’