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

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

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.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

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

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

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

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

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

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.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

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

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.