A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

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

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

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

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

WWII rocket launchpad in rural Germany and site of operation backfire.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

The only remaining U-boat that is still floating never actually saw any action in World War II.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

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

Be it nature, art, or abandoned military architecture this eclectic German "museum" has you covered.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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