Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

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

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

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

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

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

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.