The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

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.

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

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

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

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

This once-mighty brick factory is now a unique museum experience.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

This abandoned villa of makeshift buildings was once the home of dancer Elis Sinistö.

The last permanent exhibit dedicated to the Soviet leader.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.