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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

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

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

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.