One of the few Tudor palaces in Germany, which hosted a historic WWII meeting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A thin golden line commemorates the deadliest terrorist attack in recent German history.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

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

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

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

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

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

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

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

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

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

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”