Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

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

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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.

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.

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

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.