As Communist-managed barriers go, the Berlin Wall was fairly effective. Erected in 1961 to stop an exodus of citizens in Soviet-controlled East Berlin from defecting to West Berlin, for decades it ...

The German capital has many ruins that bear witness to its tumultuous history. Stretches of the Berlin Wall are preserved as a reminder of the pain wrought by political division during the Cold War, ...

Every month for the past decade, Scott Nicol, a 51-year-old artist and activist, has set out from his home in McAllen to roam the Rio Grande Valley in search of ladders used to scale the border wall ...

A section of the Berlin Wall in Pankow, the neighborhood where a nearly 200-foot stretch of the historic structure was razed to make way for luxury condos Photo by Maurizio Gambarini / DPA / Picture ...

The Berlin Wall famously fell in 1989, but not all of it came down, apparently. An overlooked 20-meter (66-foot) piece of the historic barrier—which was erected in 1961 to divide West Berlin from East ...

In June, a group of people out for a walk in Berlin came upon something that would change their afternoon—and one of the world's most famous historical structures as we know it. Behind the bushes on ...

Just several short months after the 30th anniversary marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, a nearly 200-foot remaining section of the concrete blockade was razed to make way for a luxury condo ...