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

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

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

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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