It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

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

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.