What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

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

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

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

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.