Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Celebrating the works of a beloved Italian actor, known for such cult films as 'They Call Me Trinity' and 'Watch Out, We’re Mad!'

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

A historic fire call point.

This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.