The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

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

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.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

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

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."