This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

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

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

This unique medieval artwork featuring the story of the Antichrist remained lost for decades.

An abstract and eyecatching clock/fountain is the centerpiece of this little-known German city.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

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

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

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

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

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

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

In a divided Germany, Potsdam's "central" train station was relocated to the city's southern suburbs to avoid West Berlin.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.