A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Art and a pun, all in one.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Slovenia's first mosque is a striking mix of Islamic and modernist architecture.

An unmistakable facial pareidolia in the Julian Alps also includes a fantastic tale.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

An otherworldly alpine pasture with its own unique microculture that recalls Middle Earth.