A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

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

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

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.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

This peculiar museum offers hands-on interaction with seemingly intangible principles of mathematics.