This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

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.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

This ancient oak tree plays matchmaker for singles willing to branch out from the usual dating scene.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

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

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

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

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

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

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

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

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

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

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.