A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

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

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

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

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

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

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

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

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

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

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

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

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

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

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

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.