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Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

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

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

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

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

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

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

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

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