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Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The great Danube river starts here.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

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

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.