An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

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

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

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

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

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

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.