This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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.

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

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

Visitors may notice something strange walking through this quaint German town.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

From Ancient Rome to WWII, Neupfarrplatz has over 2,000 years of history underneath its main square.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

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

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.