Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.