Places miotrogtalk Wants to Go

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

Not just another old printing press; it's a place of cultural resistance and a history of the city.

A small museum filled with unique fossil finds, including one of the oldest specimens of ground sloths found in Colombia.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

A whimsical brother of the nearby Fallen Angel statue takes the falling part quite literally.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.