Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

An abstract and eyecatching clock/fountain is the centerpiece of this little-known German city.

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

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

This German monument honors the so-called "Prince of Mathematicians."

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

A carved grave marker from the 2nd century is mounted in the alcove wall of this Bavarian church.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

Electricity pylon standing in the middle of a shelter.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.