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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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

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

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

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

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

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

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

This 12-seat movie theater is the smallest in the world.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.