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

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

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

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A display of torture devices used in the Spanish Inquisition and other scourges of medieval Europe.

The ruins of an ancient stadium that hosted gripping chariot and horse races.

Infamous and now demolished panopticon prison built by its former inhabitants.

The mysterious large white cross visible from the runway is a memorial to a massacre during Spanish Civil War.

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.