Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

An ancient Roman temple first dedicated to an emperor's wife is now a church.

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 museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

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

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

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

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

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

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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