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

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

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

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The largest collection of two headed animals in the world.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

This collection of historic puppets honors centuries of the craft.

Andrew Carnegie funded the building of almost 3,000 libraries across the world, this was the first.

These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.

This once-majestic, now-abandoned Victorian castle has seen better days.

Inside this art museum resides one of Glasgow's most famous musical instruments.

An artistic interpretation of the history of a Scottish park, combining poetry with anthropomorphic animals.

The biggest onshore wind farm in the United Kingdom.

The final resting place of a poisoned lover whose death was at the center of one of Glasgow's most sensational murder trials.