One room inside this building mesmerizes all with its parabolic dome.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

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

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

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

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

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

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

Twelve sweet, nutty, life-sized statues are housed in this second-story shrine to almond paste.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

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.