This lone tower casts an outstretched shadow over the site of a once-wealthy Knights Templar preceptory.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

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

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

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

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.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

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

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

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.