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

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

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

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

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

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

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.