A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

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

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

Take a walk in a recreation of ancient Rome.

This massive steel pyramid can be entered by a set of jagged steps that let visitors stand in its heart.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

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

A preserved college lock-up that recalls a clubhouse approach to discipline.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.

This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

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