A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

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

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

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

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

The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

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

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

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