Memorials in Germany

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

This statue has a painful history, but activists have since recontextualized it as a way to educate visitors about the dangers posed by fascist regimes.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

A beloved street vendor is memorialized outside a German train station.

It commemorates one of the world's earliest telegraphs.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

This natural hill rose another 130 feet from the debris and rubble added after World War II.

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

The mass grave of the 27 victims of the "Vampire of Hanover."

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

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

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.