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One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The history and future of cannabis.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.