An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

Germany's longest suspension rope bridge.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

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

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

This German museum devoted to the simple wonders of salt is actually built over an old saltworks.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

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

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A historic casino where Dostoyevsky is said to have lost it all on a single spin of the roulette wheel.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.