A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

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

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

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.