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

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

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

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

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

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.

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

Berlin's old airport.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.