World's largest barrel containing an inn.

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

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

1898 German railroad depot museum with working engines, steam train excursions, and hands-on displays.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

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

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.