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The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

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

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

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

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

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

A small square plaque marks a failed assassination attempt that could have changed history.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

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

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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