The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

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

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

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

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.

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

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

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

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A socialist building dedicated to teachers showcases one of the largest Soviet mosaics in the world.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.

These craggy limestone outcrops offer a glimpse at a unique piece of Florida geology.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

Dedicated to a song so popular the request to "Play Shoreline" became part of Swedish culture.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

There are no crying babies in this neck of the woods.