Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Berlin's old airport.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

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

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This prehistoric figurine is the oldest known realistic depiction of a human face.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.