A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

The world's first motorway was used as a racetrack until the late 1990s.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

After local authorities changed the design, the building's architect, Le Corbusier, wanted nothing to do with it.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A historic fire call point.

This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

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

Keep your eyes out for this "ghost" and walking pun.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

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