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Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A surprisingly detailed model of one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

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

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.