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 Feadship Symphony on the Gouwe aquaduct.

Waddinxveen, Netherlands

Gouwe Aquaduct

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

Finowfurt Aviation Museum

Schorfheide, Germany

Finowfurt Aviation Museum

This former Soviet military base has over 10 original aircraft and an enormous amount of memorabilia on display.

Family plot

Wiesbaden, Germany

The Red Baron's Grave

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

Goseck Circle.

Goseck, Germany

Goseck Circle

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn

Lichtenhain/Bergbahn, Germany

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

The cheese mite memorial in Würchwitz, Germany.

Zeitz, Germany

Cheese Mite Memorial

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

The ovens.
Permanently Closed

Oranienburg, Germany

Abandoned SS Brotfabrik

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

Old Power Plant of the Army Research Center in Peenemünde

Peenemünde, Germany

Peenemünde Army Research Center

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

The tanks are lined up in strict rows.

Sögel, Germany

Sögel Tank Cemetery

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

Arial view

Netzschkau, Germany

Göltzsch Viaduct

The largest brick bridge in the world.

The platform of the Art Nouveau Elevator in Bad Schandau.

Bad Schandau, Germany

Art Nouveau Elevator

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

Airport Rangsdorf
Permanently Closed

Rangsdorf, Germany

Abandoned Airfield Rangsdorf

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

Liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp April 1945: Women and children herded together in one of the camp huts

Lohheide, Germany

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

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

(Wikimedia Commons)

Munich, Germany

Eisbachwelle

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

Civil unrest on a small scale.

Hamburg, Germany

Miniatur Wunderland

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Mühlenplatz

Oberweser, Germany

Mühlenplatz

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

An evening view of the second tower.

Berlin, Germany

Humboldthain Flak Tower

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Lego Bridge in Wuppertal, Germany

Wuppertal, Germany

Lego Bridge

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

The mighty Bagger 258

Schipkau, Germany

Bagger 258: The "Blue Wonder"

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Castle of Wewelsburg

Büren, Germany

Castle of Wewelsburg

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Tempelhof postcard, ca early 1960's

Berlin, Germany

Tempelhof Airport

Berlin's old airport.

Externsteine.

Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany

Externsteine

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

The Hoff shrine

Berlin, Germany

David Hasselhoff Museum

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

This castle, as witnessed today, was inspired by vivid portrayals of its 12th-century predecessor in the novel Lichtenstein by Wilhelm Hauff.

Lichtenstein, Germany

Lichtenstein Castle

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

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