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An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

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

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

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

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

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

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

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

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

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

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

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