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

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

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

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

The oldest trees in Northern Germany.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

An IT-specialist-turned-farmer reintroduces an Austrian food tradition while promoting snails as a sustainable "future food" option.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Meet the oldest inhabitants of this Italian hamlet, a series of oddly preserved mummies.