A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

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 ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

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

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

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

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

Be it nature, art, or abandoned military architecture this eclectic German "museum" has you covered.

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

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

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

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

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

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

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

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

The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.

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

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.