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In a quiet neighborhood in the south of Berlin is one of the most ambitious social housing experiments of the 20th century.

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.

Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

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

After local authorities changed the design, the building's architect, Le Corbusier, wanted nothing to do with it.

Ever-changing museum dedicated to graffiti and contemporary street art.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

A socialist building dedicated to teachers showcases one of the largest Soviet mosaics in the world.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

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

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

A Syrian family keeps memories of their homeland alive at this sweet shop.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

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

After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

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

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

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.