Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

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.

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

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

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

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

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.