Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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