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

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

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

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

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

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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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

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