A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

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

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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.

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

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.