A beautiful collection of taxidermy birds and rare pomological wax models.

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

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

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

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Berlin's old airport.

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.