This is Bremen’s oldest historic district, famous for its labyrinth of narrow medieval alleys lined with tiny, colorful 15th-century houses that resemble beads on a rope.

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

A thought-provoking outdoor art installation sits in the seat of German law.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

What appears to be an ordinary bridge is actually a rare aqueduct.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

This little jewel of post-war religious architecture is hidden inside the Diocesan Museum, which swallowed it when it was built.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

A small wedge of East Berlin was once on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall

A Brutalist architectural gem hidden among Skopje’s neoclassical buildings.

This synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin, is a historic architectural gem and one of the oldest surviving synagogue buildings in the United States.

David Robert Jones was a Berliner — from 1976–1978

An abstract monument by the famous Berlin sculptor Georg Kolbe for Emil and Walther Rathenau with an eventful history