This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

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

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

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

Berlin's old airport.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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