A Faraday Cage protects cars from a nearby high-power transmitter.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The world's first jet-powered aircraft were assembled by the Germans in this secret factory in the forest during WWII.

The largest mosque in Germany.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

Germany's tiniest institution of education.

Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

A memorial to a dizzying sports device and its creator.

Renowned mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss once worked at this observatory.

Powerline dead since the 1980s despite appearances.

Where the interconnection of German power grids should be.

This unusual small wind turbine in Germany has only a single rotor blade.

This small university museum houses a priceless collection of scientific instruments.

A collection of antique telescopes dot the halls of the university's astrophysics department.

This strange sculpture is an enigmatic icon of this medieval German town.

This mysterious cross appeared on a farmer's lawn in 1972 and has been attracting pilgrims ever since.

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.