Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

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