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

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

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

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

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

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

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

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

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

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Berlin's old airport.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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