Places Populaatti Wants to Go

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

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

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

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.

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

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

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

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

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