After fleeing the Syrian civil war, chef Malakeh Jazmati began serving exceptional renditions of her homeland's cuisine in Berlin.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

A dilapidated space station with overtones of 'Alien' and 'Bladerunner' featuring a multiplayer games galore.

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

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

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

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

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

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

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.