Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

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

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

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

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.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.