Bingen, Germany
Mouse Tower
Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Berlin, Germany
Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Heidelberg, Germany
Heidelberg Studentenkarzer
A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.
Göttingen, Germany
The Göttingen Collection of Mathematical Models
These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.
Darmstadt, Germany
The Ludwigshöhe
A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.
Hamelin, Germany
Glockenspiel of Hameln
The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.
Hamburg, Germany
Rote Flora
This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.
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.
Berlin, Germany
Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten
Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.
Trier, Germany
Karl Marx House
The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.
Essen, Germany
Zollverein
The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.
Nordstrand, Germany
The Lorenbahn
A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.
Lübbenau/Spreewald, Germany
Gurkenmuseum (Cucumber Museum)
A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.
Quedlinburg, Germany
Quedlinburg Abbey
The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.
Lübeck, Germany
Astronomical Clock at St. Mary's Church
A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.
Regensburg, Germany
Document Neupfarrplatz
From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.
Cologne, Germany
St. Petersglocke
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
Berlin, Germany
Friedrichsfelde Socialist Cemetery
The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.
Landsberg am Lech, Germany
Landsberg Prison
The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.
Lübeck, Germany
The Devil's Stone
A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.
Lohheide, Germany
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.
Bonn, Germany
Bonn Cherry Blossoms
Thousands of flowers create enchanting pink tunnels over the city streets.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Castle Werdenfels
The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
