A historic 1929 art-house cinema that features independent, classic, cult, and foreign films in an atmospheric setting.

This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

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

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

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

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

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

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

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.

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