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

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

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

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

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

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

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

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

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

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

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

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

Berlin's old airport.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.