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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

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

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

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

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

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

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Berlin's old airport.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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