Berlin, Germany
'Stand By Me' Tree
Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.
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Berlin, Germany
Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.
Berlin, Germany
What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.
Berlin, Germany
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
Berlin, Germany
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Berlin, Germany
A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.
Rome, Italy
Architectural monsters are devouring this palace's every door and window.
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.
Berlin, Germany
A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.
Warsaw, Poland
A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.
Warsaw, Poland
A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.
Gdańsk, Poland
The site of the first battle of World War II.
Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.
Warsaw, Poland
A 20th-century picture show in 3-D.
Warsaw, Poland
A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.
Warsaw, Poland
A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.
Warsaw, Poland
The world’s narrowest house makes for an awkward, four-foot-wide living space.
Warsaw, Poland
A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.
Detmold, Germany
This proud Teutonic warrior rises out of a German forest heralding a victory and measuring lightning.
Hamburg, Germany
This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.
Hamburg, Germany
Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.
Hamburg, Germany
A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.