A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

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

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

A Faraday Cage protects cars from a nearby high-power transmitter.

One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.

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

The former home of Ernst Jünger, an eccentric German novelist, philosopher, entomologist, and psychonaut.

Next to the well-known retaining weir "Hochablass" is the former raft port for the city of Augsburg.

An Orthodox church inside a small "Garden of Eden" built by a man who had a vision.

Most powerful transmitter in Germany only broadcasts in the French language.

This museum explores the history of the city's public transportation. Its collection includes the world's oldest preserved electric trolley car.

One of two electrical towers in Germany that have a pathway constructed through the tower's legs.

This private museum is packed with 20th-century traffic and technology artifacts.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

Small museum dedicated to one of the founding fathers of modern astronautics.

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.

One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.