Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

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.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

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

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Tens of thousands of tiny bottles stuffed with various items.

A small collection of magic tricks and memorabilia is now an apartment-sized museum.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.

The ruins of a medieval castle linked to the murderous French lord that inspired the famous legend of Bluebeard.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

All that remains of the only English cathedral destroyed in the Protestant Reformation.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.