Everything measured, discovered, known – are there still places in Germany to marvel and wonder? Geographer and journalist Pia Volk has explored the area between the Wadden Sea and the Allgäu, between the banks of the Main in Frankfurt and the Sorbian region, and has come across many strange and peculiar places: an oak tree with its own address, a submerged Atlantis in the North Sea, a chandelier in the Cologne sewer system, and the last remaining border lock for Soviet zone agents.

Pia Volk has walked along a path that leads across the grounds of a nuclear power plant and crossed a military training area on her way to powerful tombs, the construction of which remains a mystery. She has jumped over a rocky landscape riddled with voids where all water disappears and learned how one can deduce from a church tower the most colossal event in German geological history. She has listened to Sorbian fairy tales, Saterfriesian proverbs, and sounds that last for years. She reports on all these bizarre landscapes, eccentric worlds, and obscure objects. Exciting and entertaining, she guides us to geographical and historical curiosities, teaching us to see our own country with new eyes.