The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

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

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

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

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

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

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

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

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

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