Berlin's old airport.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

The site of good faith and good nature in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

A historical observatory still in use by modern astronomers.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

A local train station entrance hall doubles as a sanctuary for barn swallows.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

The site of the original experiment that would be used to disprove the theory of luminiferous ether.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

A bizarre representation of our ever forward moving society.

A stone from Africa's tallest peak is immortalized in a Potsdam palace—but is it actually the mountaintop?

In a divided Germany, Potsdam's "central" train station was relocated to the city's southern suburbs to avoid West Berlin.

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

The metal-free wooden towers of Brück.

Remains of a huge radio tower.

This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.