After the Wall fell, artists used the blank grey concrete on the east side as a canvas.
More than a kilometer long, the East Side Gallery is home to more than 100 murals, including these positive gestures and symbols.
But Soviet oppression isn't forgotten, either.
Leonid Brezhnev kisses Erich Honecker in the most famous mural of all. Today, it seems a little out-of-step to equate homosexuality with political oppression but the image of disgusting collaboration remains a powerful one.
Germany's attempt to reconcile its past is inescapable.
Several murals imaginatively depict the rush to freedom both literally and figuratively.
The Trabbi provides an easily recognizable symbol of East Germany.
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It looks as if even Gorbachev is behind the "hammer and sickle" of a Trabbi!
Celebrities are represented, too, although I'm not sure why.
Some of the artists' works were more arresting than comprehensible.
Although the East Side Gallery is protected, tourists find ways to leave their own marks.
The graffiti on the west side of the wall isn't nearly as impressive.
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