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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.

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

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

A Bauhaus co-founder designed this quirky, abandoned granary.

This statue is said to bring good luck to visiting lovebirds.

This Baltic beauty is rumored to grant a wish and a half.

For centuries, this hill along the Polish coast has been used as a lookout—and the rumored home of pirate treasure.

A striking church with a Tolkien-inspired nickname.

This bombed church was given a new life as a contemporary art gallery.

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

A relic of Poland's shipbuilding past, reborn as a sky-high lookout.

Gdańsk's lion mascot features in a trail of bronze sculptures scattered all across the city.

One of the world's largest amber altarpieces is housed within this reconstructed medieval church.

Several 12th-century ruins can be found inside this historical market.