The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

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.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

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

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

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

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

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

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