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

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

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

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

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

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

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

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

The great Danube river starts here.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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.

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

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.