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

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

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

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

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

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.