The largest brick bridge in the world.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

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

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

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