Berlin is a city that wears its history in plain sight. Bullet-scarred colonnades stand a few blocks from glass-domed parliaments, a strip of painted Cold War concrete runs along the Spree, and a former Nazi-era airport is now a park

Munich is where Bavaria shows off. Royal palaces built by the Wittelsbach dynasty sit a short walk from beer halls that have poured the same lagers for centuries, surfers ride a standing wave in the middle of the city's biggest