A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

The oldest giants in Catalonia are now displayed in a 14th-century Gothic church.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.