- The Berlin Wall was here!
- "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 - Oberbaum Bridge, Berlin, at sunset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberbaum_Bridge - "Konzerthaus", Berlin
- "Bierpinsel", Berlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierpinsel - The mysterious bent trees of Gryfino, Poland (just across the border from Germany)
Noone's sure exactly how these trees ended up this way: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gryfino-forest - "Reichstag", Berlin
The German Parliament building from 1894-1933, and again since 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_%28building%29 - Clock tower, Dahme, Germany
- The site of the WWII V-2 rocket factory, at Peenemünde, Germany
- A V-2 rocket, on display at Peenemünde, Germany
- A V-1 "flying bomb", on display at Peenemünde, Germany
- How former East Germans enjoy a summer day at the beach - at Binz, on the Baltic Sea coast
- Stralsund, Germany
- Stralsund, Germany
Another old Hanseatic League city (and UNESCO World Heritage Listed site) in northern Germany - "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