An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

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

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

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

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."