Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

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

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

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

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

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

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

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.