The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.