The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

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

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

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

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.