Over 70 independent businesses have set up shop in this former Victorian department store.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Once the longest swing bridge in Europe.

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.

The Guinness Book acknowledged one of the biggest and oldest collections of computer games, featuring a strange 'pain machine' that blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real world

An intersection between architecture, industrial construction, machine, and scientific instrument.

Ever-changing museum dedicated to graffiti and contemporary street art.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

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

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

A German artist built a home and garden filled with whimsical art pieces, like a massive, operational volcano.

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.