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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A sweet museum focused on beets.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

Antique frame collection with 2,400 frames.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

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

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

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

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

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

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

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

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

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

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

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

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