After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Medieval torture techniques with a modern conscience.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

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

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

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.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

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

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.