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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

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

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

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

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

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

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Berlin's old airport.

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

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.