This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

An abandoned train station in Munich constructed for the 1972 Olympic games.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

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

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

A memorial dedicated to those who lost their lives working in what is now a massive tourist attraction.

A park dedicated to the titular writer filled with references to his work.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.