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

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

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

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

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

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

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

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.