The dome-shaped reservoir of this old water tower produces unique acoustic effects.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

One of the last remaining railway viaducts equipped with a transporter ferry.

The world's biggest pet store.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

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

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

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.

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

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

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

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

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.