A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

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

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

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Buttermilk biscuits so nice, you'll say “yay” twice.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

Still standing despite its considerable slant, this tilted lighthouse has become a local symbol of resilience.

The ruins of an important pilgrimage destination for worshippers of a Maya fertility goddess.

One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.