Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A historic fire call point.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

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

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

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

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

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.