A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

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

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

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

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

The tomb of the mythological founder of Padua is not hidden in some obscure crypt, but stands right in the middle of the city square.

One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

This old medieval prison tower has been a site of astronomical research for more than 250 years.