This giant glowing "beanpole" adds much-needed pops of color to an otherwise drab power plant.

One of the largest busts in the world celebrates the German city's erstwhile namesake.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

One of the most iconic neon ads of former East Germany.

This incredible stone temple is a monument to death, victory, and fantasy architecture.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Berlin's old airport.

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

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