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

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

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

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Berlin's old airport.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.