This ten-ton fruit sculpture celebrates the Finland homeland.

Hundreds of signs pointing to the birthplaces of current Helsinki residents form stalactites on the ceiling of the cave-like Kamppi metro station.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

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

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

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.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

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

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

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

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

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

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.