Berlin, Germany
Artpark Tegel
This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.
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Berlin, Germany
Babka & Kranz
Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Victory Column
A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.
Berlin, Germany
Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind
A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.
Berlin, Germany
Stadtbahn Viaduct World War II Damage
Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
Denkzeichen Georg Elser
A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.
Berlin, Germany
The 'Hand with Watch' Sculpture
Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.
Berlin, Germany
Velvet
Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.
Berlin, Germany
German-Russian Museum
A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.
Berlin, Germany
Abandoned Iraqi Embassy
When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.
Berlin, Germany
Georg-von-Rauch-Haus
Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.
Berlin, Germany
Marx and Engels Forum
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Radio Tower
A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.
Berlin, Germany
Kaninchenfeld (Rabbit Field)
These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.
Berlin, Germany
Soviet Graffiti in the Reichstag
The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.
Berlin, Germany
Schwerbelastungskörper
Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.
Berlin, Germany
Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors)
A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
The Bierpinsel
A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum
Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.
Berlin, Germany
The Bebelplatz
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
Buchstabenmuseum
A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.
Berlin, Germany
Teufelsberg
An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."
Berlin, Germany
Vestiges of the Berlin Wall
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
