Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

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.

Berlin's old airport.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

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

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The great Danube river starts here.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.