Berlin, Germany
The DDR Museum
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
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Berlin, Germany
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Berlin, Germany
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Berlin, Germany
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Berlin, Germany
Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.
Berlin, Germany
The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Berlin, Germany
A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.
Berlin, Germany
This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.
Trier, Germany
The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.
Trier, Germany
The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.
Cologne, Germany
Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.
Cologne, Germany
The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.
Jackson, Mississippi
This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.
Munich, Germany
Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.
Munich, Germany
The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.
Munich, Germany
A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Munich, Germany
This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
Kansasville, Wisconsin
The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.