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At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Berlin's old airport.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

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

A stone from Africa's tallest peak is immortalized in a Potsdam palace—but is it actually the mountaintop?

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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.

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

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

This magenta statue commemorates the legendary marriage between a mermaid and the city's founder.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A tree full of wishes and footwear.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.