Lübeck, Germany
The Broken Bells of St. Mary's
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
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Lübeck, Germany
The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.
Duisburg, Germany
The world's biggest pet store.
Bremen, Germany
Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.
Lohheide, Germany
A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.
Berlin, Germany
A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.
Nuremberg, Germany
This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.
Rangsdorf, Germany
The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Gommern, Germany
The resting place of 18th century German mummies.
Berlin, Germany
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Königswinter, Germany
This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."
Berlin, Germany
From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.
Berlin, Germany
Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.
Berlin, Germany
This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.
Duisburg, Germany
This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's old airport.
Oppenheim, Germany
This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.
Berlin, Germany
When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.
Munich, Germany
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Wonsees, Germany
These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.
Grünwald, Germany
This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.