Munich, Germany
Weiße Rose Pavement Memorial
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
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Munich, Germany
These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.
Schleswig, Germany
Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.
Berlin, Germany
Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.
Worms, Germany
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.
Halbe, Germany
It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.
Hildesheim, Germany
The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.
Berlin, Germany
Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Potsdam, Germany
The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.
Schipkau, Germany
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.
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Berlin, Germany
A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.
Berlin, Germany
The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.
Munich, Germany
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.
Grünwald, Germany
This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.
Berlin, Germany
This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Zinnowitz, Germany
An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
Heidelberg, Germany
This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.
Duisburg, Germany
No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.
Berlin, Germany
This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.