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

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

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

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

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

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.