Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.