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

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

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

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

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

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.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

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

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

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.