A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

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

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.