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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

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

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

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

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.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.