Although long known for its hipster edge, today's Berlin is starting to seem downright grown-up. Having lost most of its city center during World War II, it will never have the preserved-in-amber ...

Germany's Parliament voted 11 years ago to reconstruct the 18th-century palace, which was demolished in 1950 and later replaced by East Germany's Parliament building — itself now knocked down.

At No. 1, in the broad Unter Den Linden, stands the Wilhelm I Palace; and in it, last week, the wife of Wilhelm II took up her residence, as she recently threatened to do (TIME, July 18).