One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

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

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

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

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

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

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.