On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

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

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

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.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

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

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

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

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

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A movable feast that is an East London institution.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

A student driver's nightmare.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.