- "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 - "Bierpinsel", Berlin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bierpinsel - The Berlin Wall was here!
- Oberbaum Bridge, Berlin, at sunset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberbaum_Bridge - "Konzerthaus", Berlin
- "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 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 - A V-2 rocket, on display at Peenemünde, Germany
- A V-1 "flying bomb", on display at Peenemünde, Germany
- The site of the WWII V-2 rocket factory, 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 - "House of the Seamen's Guildhall" (1535), Lübeck, Germany