This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

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

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

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

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

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

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.