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

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

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

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

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

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

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

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

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

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

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

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.