A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

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

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Berlin's old airport.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.