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.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

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

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

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

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

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

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

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

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