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

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

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

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

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

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

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