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

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

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

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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.

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

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

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

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

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

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.

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.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

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