For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

Tallest - but not most powerful - wind turbine in the world.

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 radio tower with something unusual between its legs.

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

This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

This towering statue of Jesus provided internet to the surrounding area.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

The last original stone marking the interwar border between Germany and Poland sits in this unassuming village park.