This contemplative sculpture made out of old machine parts is meant to be the first in a series of sculptures around the world.

Copenhagen's "other" little mermaid marks the historic location of past sea maid sightings.

This bridge's unique architecture honors nautical heritage and encourages self-awareness.

This pair of gilded girls atop an Art Deco building in Copenhagen were built to function as a weather indicator.

Site of the first radio and telephone broadcasting companies in Copenhagen.

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

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

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

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

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.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

Largely overlooked, this little fountain on Museum Island is a whimsical tribute to a Prussian king nicknamed the “Fatty Flounder.”

Celebrating the works of a beloved Italian actor, known for such cult films as 'They Call Me Trinity' and 'Watch Out, We’re Mad!'

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.