A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

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

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

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.

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

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

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

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.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.