This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.