From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

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

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

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

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