A poignant memorial that traces two hundred years of German history.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

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

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

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

An important message and optimistic splash of color in a troubled neighborhood.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Berlin's old airport.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A thin golden line commemorates the deadliest terrorist attack in recent German history.

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

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

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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A wooden rollercoaster that still delivers a thrill.