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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

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

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

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

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

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.