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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

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

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

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.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

Berlin's old airport.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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.

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

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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