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

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

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

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

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

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

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

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Berlin's old airport.

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

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

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

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.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.