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

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

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

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

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

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

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

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

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

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

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

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.