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

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

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

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

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

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

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

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

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

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

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.