20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

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

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

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

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

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

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

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A historical convent known for taking in bad luck babies left on its doorstep is now an upscale shopping center.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.