A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.