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

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

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

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

This device was crucial to the Industrial Revolution development of Leeds.

Harlequin costumes, signed scripts, and armor-wearing puppets.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

A wunderkammer of curious objects and intriguing art nestled within a hub of ancient Roman sites.

Ever hear of the Milazzo Cage?

This delightful little museum is dedicated to only one thing: pasta.

A literary park dedicated to the memory of a filmmaker, writer, and intellectual who was killed in 1975.

An ancient Egyptian obelisk is now used to commemorate fallen Italian soldiers.

The charred, dead skeleton of an oak tree is said to have consoled a dying 16th-century Italian poet.

The Italian revolutionary's legendary wife is portrayed on horseback waving a gun and holding her child in this memorial on the Janiculum.

The meaning behind this triumphal Roman arch was a mystery until the early 20th century.