After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

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

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

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

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

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

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

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

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