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

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

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

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

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

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

A socialist building dedicated to teachers showcases one of the largest Soviet mosaics in the world.

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.”

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

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

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

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

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

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

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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