A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

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

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Berlin's old airport.

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

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

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

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

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.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.