Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

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

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

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

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

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

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.