A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

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

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

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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

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

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

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

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

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

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.

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

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

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

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

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