The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

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

Over 12,000 hygiene oriented objects and exhibits.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

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

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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