Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

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

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

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

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

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

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

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