A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

These crumbling monastery ruins inspired a master of German Romanticism.

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

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

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

This unusual sculpture depicts how coins were made when minting was done by hand.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

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

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

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

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

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