The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

A socialist building dedicated to teachers showcases one of the largest Soviet mosaics in the world.

This gateway to subterranean Hanover plays jazz, pop and rock to surprised passersby.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

An ornate sculpture of an ox in repose marks the former entrance to Nuremberg's medieval meat market, which was destroyed during World War II.

The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

The "feral child" who appeared in Bavaria in the 19th century remains as much a mystery as his unsolved murder.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.