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

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

Volkswagen's dedicated museum dives into the complex history of one of the world's best known cars.

A medieval gate once used as a prison and how home to a city museum.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

In the city forest of Augsburg are oval, artificial ponds formed from a World War II bombing campaign.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

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

Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.

The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

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

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

This natural "sea of stones" was once used by the Romans as a quarry.

The final resting place of the famed German pilot, the "Red Baron."

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

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

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.