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

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

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

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

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

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

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.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

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

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.

Berlin's old airport.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.