An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

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

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

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

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.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Berlin's old airport.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

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

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

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

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

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.