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

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

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.

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

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

The great Danube river starts here.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

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

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

An Orthodox church inside a small "Garden of Eden" built by a man who had a vision.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

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

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

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.