Colditz, Germany
Colditz Castle
An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.
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Colditz, Germany
An officers prison camp believed to be impregnable by the Germans saw over 30 successful escapes.
Munich, Germany
A subterranean display of public art and architecture.
Schleiden, Germany
This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.
Flossenbürg, Germany
A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.
Sögel, Germany
There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.
Netzschkau, Germany
The largest brick bridge in the world.
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.
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.
Völklingen, Germany
A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.
Schipkau, Germany
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's old airport.
Berlin, Germany
Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.
Wuppertal, Germany
This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Kassel, Germany
A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.
Berlin, Germany
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Lohmen, Germany
Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.
Berlin, Germany
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”