HitchBOT, the hitch-hiking robot from Canada, recently spent ten days travelling around Germany – visiting Neuschwanstein Castle, Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg.

Not all carnival processions are the same – an overview of carnival festivities.

Certain sites in Germany are popular locations for Hollywood film productions.

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and memorials in Germany for holocaust victims are manifold. Since 1996 artist Gunter Demnig has installed over 43,000 personalized bronze plaques—Stoplersteine (stumbling stones)—memorializing Third Reich victims on German sidewalks. You can’t walk far on most German streets without—literally—stumbling over a reminder of what happened here. Unless you live in Munich.

Most Berlin guidebooks offer the same list of sights: Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, the Berlin Wall. But what would a local show you if she had an afternoon to share with a curious stranger? Probably one of the lesser known but not less interesting sites featured in Slow Travel Berlin’s "100 Favorite Places: Berlin."