Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

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.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.