Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Climb to the top of its spiral spire for spectacular views of Copenhagen.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

The Suurhusen church tower in Germany leans over farther than the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.