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Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

These abandoned vessels are destined to be reclaimed by the forest.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

A six-story, asymmetrical tower filled to the brim with scientific experiments.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

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

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

These hilariously laughing bronze figures lampoon empty promises while encouraging civic engagement.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

This bike path traverses the treetops.