It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

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

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

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.

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

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.