The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

These tenacious 14th-century towers defied demolition and are now a fairytale vacation rental.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.