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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

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

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.