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

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

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

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

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

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

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

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

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

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

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

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

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

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

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