This East German map from 1988 has a great gaping hole where West Berlin should be. Mark and Jay discover that this map with a gap is not "wrong", and it's certainly not unique.

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

West Berlin was seen as an island in a red sea of communism. As the map below shows, the wall divided the city but also travelled round West Berlin which was on the border to Brandenburg in East ...

As Germany celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 — and the country's reunification less than a year later on Oct. 3, 1990 — many in Germany are ...

Located in the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall Memorial stretches for a little less than a mile along what was once the border that divided the city in two. Upon arriving at the memorial ...