History in Germany

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

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

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

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

The monumental home of Prussia’s eccentric "Cannon King."

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

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

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.