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

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.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

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

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

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

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.