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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

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

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

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

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

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

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