Around the world, lucky foods for the new year range from collard greens (representing green cash) to long noodles (representing...
Germany
In Braunschweig, Germany, where the streets Hutfilter, Damm and Kattreppeln meet in the pedestrian zone, the most gorgeous, humorous and...
Old City Wall of Berlin: the last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city
November 2019 marked 30 years since the Berlin Wall, which divided East and West Berlin for more than 25 years,...
Imagine walking into one of most adorned room at Versailles...to buy a piece of cheese. Maybe it sound unlikely, but...
St. John’s Dance, known historically as St. Vitus Dance, was a social phenomenon involving a type of dance mania that...
Germany's Volkswagen is the largest car maker in the world, after Toyota. Its 590,000 employees produce around the world nearly...
Shark Island was founded in 1795 off the coast of Luderitz, Namibia. Originally named Star Island, the land sat amidst...
Did you know Aachen Cathedral, Western Germany, may be able to claim a special spiritual connection with the global coronavirus...
If the Easter Bunny needed a place to safeguard his eggs off-season, the quaint village of Sonnenbühl in Baden-Württemberg would...
Have you heard of the theory that it storms on Good Friday in the afternoon between 12 p.m. and 3...
We are in Berlin, where an empty, tumble-down, complex sits amidst handsome new apartment buildings in Weissensee neighborhood. Though a...
Gunboat diplomacy was at its height in 1889 and on this day, March 15, tension was high with an act...
A lost waterpark sits in the Britz area of Neukölln district in Berlin, Germany, or, at least, what remains of...
February 13, 1945. On this day, waves of British bombers began reducing one of the Germany's (and world) most beautiful...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of the most famous (and appreciated) fairy tales in the world, first...
In the 15 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the nation, Germany has struggled...
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer Strasse is a quiet street in Berlin, which lies on the lively edge of gentrified Prenzlauerberg’s encroachment into Friedrichshain....
Christmas season in Germany conjures different things: winding and pictoresque Weihnachtsmärkte, seasonally draining wallets or St. Nick and terrifying (at...
Each december, millions of people dust off Christmas ornaments and hang them on their respective trees. They carefully place glass...
Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War. Killed in gas...
Berlin, 1956. About ten years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and Germany was at the...
Try to imagine a scene in a Marvel movie in which the Hulk has picked up a tram car and...
While driving through the outskirts of Wuppertal in the Rhine-Rhur metropolitan region of Germany, drivers are wont to stare in...
If Gunther Holtorf had a lengthy career with Lufthansa beginning in 1958, in 1989, he left his job to take...
Although over the centuries the reputation of Klaus Störtebeker (1360-1401) took on a legendary aura, almost like a German Robin...
Europe, the old continent so rich in artistic, historical and architectural treasures, suffered incurable wounds especially during the World War...
Roter Franz is the mummy of a young man found in the Bourtanger swamp, on the border between Holland and...
Crimes, mysteries and ghosts: this is Beelitz, a famous abandoned German hospital, located near Berlin, exactly in the south-west part....
In ancient times, a dark, hairy, horned beast was said to show up at the door to kidnap children. The...
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Santa Claus was still a character to be defined. What could he wear?...
