A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

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

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

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

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

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

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

After local authorities changed the design, the building's architect, Le Corbusier, wanted nothing to do with it.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

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

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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