Remains of a huge radio tower.

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

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

This monolithic slab of art metal crowns a German slag heap.

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

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

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

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.