Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

A stone from Africa's tallest peak is immortalized in a Potsdam palace—but is it actually the mountaintop?

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

A historical observatory still in use by modern astronomers.

A bizarre representation of our ever forward moving society.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

An abandoned football stadium with a tragic past.

This towering statue of Jesus provided internet to the surrounding area.

An abstract and eyecatching clock/fountain is the centerpiece of this little-known German city.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.