Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

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

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Abandoned station along an ancient pilgrimage route.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.