Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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.

Russian researchers who have been excavating ancient squirrel burrows may have brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life.

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

This bike path was sunk below water level for maximum wonder.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.