Guben, Germany
Plastinarium
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
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Guben, Germany
The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.
Lübbenau/Spreewald, Germany
A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.
Lübben, Germany
Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
An abstract and eyecatching clock/fountain is the centerpiece of this little-known German city.
Berlin, Germany
Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.
Berlin, Germany
This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.
Berlin, Germany
The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.
Berlin, Germany
Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.
Strausberg, Germany
A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.
Schorfheide, Germany
This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.
Hamburg, Germany
Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.
Hamburg, Germany
A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.
Hamburg, Germany
This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.
Hamburg, Germany
This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Hamburg, Germany
Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Hamburg, Germany
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.
Hamburg, Germany
A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.
Hamburg, Germany
Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.
Hamburg, Germany
This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.
Hamburg, Germany
A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.