Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

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.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

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.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

This German fountain of a legendary apple wine-loving drink thief will spit on you.

A miniature model of what will be the world's largest telescope.

A surprisingly detailed model of one of the most powerful telescopes in the world.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

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

A local train station entrance hall doubles as a sanctuary for barn swallows.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

The home of president Truman during the Potsdam Conference, and the place from which the atomic bomb strike on Japan was triggered.

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

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

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.