All Places in Hamburg

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

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

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

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.