This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

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

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.