A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

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

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.

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

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

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

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.