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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Peenemünde

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Peenemünde, Germany

Updated July 14, 2021
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Old Power Plant of the Army Research Center in Peenemünde

Peenemünde, Germany

Peenemünde Army Research Center

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.
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Peenemünde, Germany

Maritime Museum Peenemünde U-461

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.
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The Upside-Down House in Trassenheide.

Trassenheide, Germany

Upside-Down House of Trassenheide

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.
5 miles from Peenemünde
Visitors boarding the Submerged Gondola in Zinnowitz.

Zinnowitz, Germany

Submerged Gondola

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.
6 miles from Peenemünde

Greifswald, Germany

Eldena Abbey

These crumbling monastery ruins inspired a master of German Romanticism.
13 miles from Peenemünde
Karnin Vertical Lift Bridge

Usedom, Germany

Karnin Vertical Lift Bridge

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.
20 miles from Peenemünde
Visitors stand on a 130-foot-high spiral tower.

Binz, Germany

Treetop Tower of Rügen

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.
22 miles from Peenemünde
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