The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

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

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

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

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

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

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

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.