This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

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

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

This replica of Columbus's famous ship houses the history of La Palma's maritime importance during the Age of Exploration.