An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

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

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

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

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

The only known mosaic depicting the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.