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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

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

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

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

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.