Touring the Horrible: A Guide to Germany's Darkest Places

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The former border between East and West Germany, where hundreds of people lost their lives trying to flee to freedom, is now a green strip of nature that stretches from Travemünde on the Baltic Sea in the north to the border with the Czech Republic. It is Germany's biggest natural habitat, a biotope that stretches 1,400 kilometers.

Those who go in search of the remnants of the Cold War 20 years after the fall of the wall will have to look carefully. While much has been removed, a lot of other pieces of the Iron Curtain have been overgrown.

The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation is now supporting the project "Green Band Germany" in order to develop tourism along the former border. It has already established hiking trails in the Wartburg region and in the Harz Mountains.

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• Part 1: A Guide to Germany's Darkest Places
• Part 2: Wewelsburg -- Himmler's Cult Site
• Part 3: Point Alpha -- Cold War Frontier
• Part 4: Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg
• Part 5: Wannsee Conference House -- Home to the Final Solution
• Part 6: Hanover's House of Horror
• Part 7: The Last Submarine -- U-995 in Laboe
• Part 8: Berlin Wall Documentation Center
• Part 9: Dachau Concentration Camp
• Part 10: Terror Strikes the Munich Olympics
• Part 11: From Death Strip to Green Strip