Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

The great Danube river starts here.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

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

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Artist's eccentric property excessively decorated with found objects and work of his own.

This folk museum is devoted to small figurines of provincial village life.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.