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

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Berlin's old airport.

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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

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

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

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The dramatic remains of an abandoned farmhouse sit high on the edge of a remote hillside.

This Georgian Gothic building was created to shelter and feed deer.

The train that took the prime minister on his final journey now rests in a British museum.

This industrial chimney looks rather out of place, isolated in the middle of an attractive woodland.