An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Costa Rica's best known combat zone, used during the Battle of Santa Rosa.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

This Costa Rican chapel is the most metal church in the world, literally.

Balanced rock sculptures pay tribute to a murdered conservationist and his pioneer wife.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

Once the foundation for a mansion, these ruins now offer amazing panoramic coastal views.