This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

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 series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

This extremely narrow tenement boasts a maximum occupancy of just two.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

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

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

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

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.