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

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

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

Largest maize maze in the Southern hemisphere built with GPS technology on more than two acres.