These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

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.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

An unusual resting place built into the hill with an amazing view of Lake Como.

This lesser-known leaning tower is all that remains of the medieval castle of Vernazzano.

A massive mausoleum towers over the gravestones in a 19th-century Italian "model village."

The towering Pinocchio stands 63 feet tall in the Italian village his creator frequented as a child.

A massive bridge forms part of an aqueduct that was deemed an architectural wonder of its time.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

Featuring the last fully walkable parapet walkway in Europe.