A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

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

A rare example of a German cemetery with traditional grave markers dating back several generations.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

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

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

The world's first and only museum dedicated to dachshunds.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

This unique medieval artwork featuring the story of the Antichrist remained lost for decades.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.