Highlights

• Stand before the Holstentor and hear how a bankrupt city came within one vote of tearing it down for bricks

• Find the warehouses where Nosferatu was filmed and where a vampire's silhouette still glows in the windows at dusk

• Walk through streets named Purgatory and Hell, then search for the devil who accidentally helped build a church he mistook for a wine bar

• See the melted bells left exactly where they crashed on the night the RAF chose Lübeck to test firestorm bombing

• Sit in a sixteenth-century seafarers' guild where captains grouped themselves by sailing route and a cellar once fed fifty strangers a night for free