A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

The world's biggest pet store.

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

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

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

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

In a small churchyard in Dingolfing, Germany the quaint Schusterkapelle is there to remind you of your imminent mortality.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.