Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

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

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

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

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

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

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

Berlin's old airport.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

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

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.