This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

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

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

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

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

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

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

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.