This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

The world's first and only three-segment bascule bridge folds up into the shape of a capital "N" to let boat traffic through.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

The unusually large seat sits atop the base of a ruined temple.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

This giant statue of a vulva became internationally famous after an American exchange student got stuck in it.

Hidden in the forest are the crumbling, graffiti-covered remains of the factory where most of Germany's explosives were produced during World War II.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

A tiny basalt mountain with an observation tower overlooking the beautiful Bavarian countryside.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.