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

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

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Twisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine river.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

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

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

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

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

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.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

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

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.