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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

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

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

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.

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

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

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

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

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

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