Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

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

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

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.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

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

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.