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"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

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

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

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

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.