A university observatory dome painted like the beloved "Star Wars" robot.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

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

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

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

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

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

The highest cold-water geyser in the world.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

At the base of this tower, a plaque marks the original center point of the Netherlands.

While most bridges allow roads to pass over water, this one allows water to pass over a road.