In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

This enchanting mountain plateau celebrates spooky local folklore.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

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.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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