There has been an astronomical clock on this spot since the 14th century.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

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

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

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

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

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

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

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.