Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

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

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Massive puppet-automaton machines created by French artist collective Machines de l’Ile.

A massively oversized measuring tape sculpture sits inside a hidden yard.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.