Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

This ice cream parlor serves scoops of flavors like rakia, medlar, and poppy seed.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

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

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

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