Celebrating the Eucharist, the day is a legal holiday in many parts of Germany.

This inconspicuous pharmacy went down in history as the first gas station in the world after fueling the first road trip ever taken.

The metal-free wooden towers of Brück.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

A local museum honors the history of Bamberg’s unique cultural heritage: growing crops in the heart of the city.

The man who gave his name to magnetic measurement is buried in the city where he did his best work.

One of the oldest student jails in Germany.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

Inside this unique festival hall, a slide leads guests down to a subterranean watering hole.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

The first recognized Neanderthal remains were found in this now-lost cave in 1856.

Held in an old church, this clockwork museum maintains a special focus on titanic tower timepieces.

This red London phone booth once stood in front of Buckingham Palace and was used by the queen.

This highrise residential building looks mundane, but hides a water tower and WWII bunker.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

This cheeky statue of a man defecating gold coins graces the facade of a medieval guildhall.