Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

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

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

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

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.