An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

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.

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.

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

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

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

In addition to fine dairy products, the world's most beautiful milk shop also offers a feast for the eyes.

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

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.