A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

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

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

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

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

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

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

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

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

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

A small hippo-shaped fountain in Berlin, Germany.

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.

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

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

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

Berlin's old airport.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.