This small gallery nestled inside an old botanical glasshouse is a quiet place to enjoy art and nature.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

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

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

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

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

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

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

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

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

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

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.