This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

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.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

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.

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