This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.