An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

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

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

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

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

Roadside Americana, fairy tale characters, and Austin quirkiness come together at this magical course in the heart of Texas' capital city.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.