All Places in Potsdam

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

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

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

Designed to resemble foreign architecture, this mosque-looking structure was used to pump water to a royal fountain.

In a divided Germany, Potsdam's "central" train station was relocated to the city's southern suburbs to avoid West Berlin.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

The site of the original experiment that would be used to disprove the theory of luminiferous ether.

A historical observatory still in use by modern astronomers.

A stone from Africa's tallest peak is immortalized in a Potsdam palace—but is it actually the mountaintop?

A local train station entrance hall doubles as a sanctuary for barn swallows.