Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

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

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

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

A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

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

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

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

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

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

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.