Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

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

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

If you visit Santa's village, you can get your passport stamped to show you crossed into the Arctic Circle.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.