Oranienburg, Germany
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
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Oranienburg, Germany
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
Oranienburg, Germany
A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.
Berlin, Germany
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.
Berlin, Germany
Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Berlin, Germany
This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.
Nuremberg, Germany
A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.
Nuremberg, Germany
This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.
Munich, Germany
The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.
Munich, Germany
Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Munich, Germany
A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.
Munich, Germany
Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.
Munich, Germany
A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.
Munich, Germany
The telescope that discovered Neptune.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.
Thessaloniki, Greece
An abandoned Byzantine fortress and notorious prison.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Souda, Greece
1,500 Commonwealth servicemen of World War II are buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
Heraklion, Greece
A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.