A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

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

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

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

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.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

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

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

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

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

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Come stay at a live-in art installation.

Berlin's old airport.

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