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

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

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

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

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

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

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

An old slaughterhouse now holds the largest collection of pig artifacts.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

The world's biggest pet store.

This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.