Legend says this sculpture commemorates a brave baker who rescued the city in the Thirty Years' War.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

This famed marionette theater and museum is bursting with imaginative string puppets.

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

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

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

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

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

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

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