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

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Berlin's old airport.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

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

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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

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

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

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

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

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