These first set of photographs are from Volkswagen's Autostadt, in Wolfsburg, which is a bit like a theme park for cars--specifically, the cars made by Volkswagen and its affiliated brands.

Now we're back in Hannover and in Hannover's baroque gardens--the Herrhausen Garten.

The upside-down cars at the end of this block are a sculpture installed just outside of Hannover's train station.

These are pictures of Hameln, the very quaint and scenic town of Pied Piper fame. The legend of the piper is based on an actual event that took place in the year 1284, when 130 of the town's children disappeared.

Pictured above is the Hamburg train station. Hamburg is a beautiful city on the Elbe river, full of bridges and canals. It's a bit like Venice, but with Germans.

Yes, it's true that citizens of Hamburg are called Hamburgers.

The next city we visited was Berlin, which is the largest city in Germany. The photograph of the radio tower was taken from the Berlin Alexanderplatz in what used to be East Berlin.

These museum pictures were taken in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, which is dedicated to Greek and Near Eastern antiquity.

This is the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, as seen under a light dusting of snow. There's a museum underneath the memorial which is well worth visiting.

The three pictures above are, of course, photographs of the sign that was put up outside Checkpoint Charlie.

The two pictures to the right and the left are of a bombed out church in Hannover, left open to the elements as a peace memorial.

Pig ("Schwein") iconography is big in Germany; apparently, when Americans talk about their inner child, Germans talk about their inner Schwein.

Above left, a diorama of Hannover in 1639. Above right, the city in 1939 (the building in black in the middle is the synagoge, which was burned down by the Nazis in 1938). Below, the city as it was in 1945, and a close-up of what was left of the opera house.

These are pictures of Hannover's Old Town and the large palace which is still the seat of the Parliament of Lower Saxony (no, there's no such thing as Upper Saxony).