Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

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

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

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

This gateway to subterranean Hanover plays jazz, pop and rock to surprised passersby.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A modern museum dedicated to the fairytales and dictionary work of the Brothers Grimm.

This German museum is devoted to all aspects of grave culture from headstones to coffins.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

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

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

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

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

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

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.