This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.

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

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

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

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

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

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

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.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

The world's biggest pet store.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

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

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.