This 10th-century seaside abbey holds spectacular views and a window into the past.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

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

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

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

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Berlin's old airport.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

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