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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

The oldest museum in Russia is home to a fascinating collection of nearly two million anthropological artifacts and anatomical curiosities.

Once frequented by heavyweights of the Russian arts scene, this café is stuck in the 1800s.

This effigy of Peter the Great is greatly disproportionate.

This memorial complex contains several mass graves for victims of the Siege of Leningrad.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

For lovers of Soviet cinema, this museum is home to a vast collection of artifacts and costumes.

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Once the longest swing bridge in Europe.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

A stunning gilt bronze relief denounced by Hitler as "degenerate art"—even though it was dedicated to the Nazi leader.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.