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Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

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

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

A Ukrainian church canteen doles out hearty fare in an East Village basement.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

This family-owned bakery is one of the last places in Brooklyn to sell the Nation of Islam–inspired bean pie.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

An artist's whimsical transformation of everyday objects.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

This museum is dedicated solely to this millennia-old handheld cooling device.

This educational institution and reference library specialize in the psychic arts and mediumship.

A discarded movie prop that was the original monolith for "2001: A Space Odyssey."