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- "Bierpinsel", Berlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierpinsel - "Holstentor", Lübeck, Germany
The old western city gate for the city of Lübeck, which was the major city of the Hanseatic League. (Lübeck, along with two other northern German Hanseatic cities - Wismar and Stralsund - are UNESCO World Heritage listed.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holstentor - "House of the Seamen's Guildhall" (1535), Lübeck, Germany
- "Konzerthaus", Berlin
- "Reichstag", Berlin
The German Parliament building from 1894-1933, and again since 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_%28building%29 - "Schwerbelastungskörper" - a failed Nazi construction project in Berlin
The Nazis (actually, some of the Nazis' French prisoners) built this huge concrete cylinder to test whether the area's sandy ground would be able to withstand an even larger 'triumphal arch'. It turns out that it wouldn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerbelastungsk%C3%B6rper - "Turning Torso" building, Malmö, Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_torso - 'Beatles-Platz', Hamburg (where The Beatles first performed in 1960)
- 'Walkable Roller Coaster', Duisburg, Germany
- A memorial to Anne Frank and her sister, who died in Bergen-Belsen
This is not their grave; they were buried in one of the many mass graves here. - A V-1 "flying bomb", on display at Peenemünde, Germany
- A V-2 rocket, on display at Peenemünde, Germany
- Cannons on display at Kronborg ("Elsinore") Castle
- Churchyard display, Altenstadt, Alsace, France (near the German border)
- Clock tower, Dahme, Germany