Berlin, Germany
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A dilapidated space station with overtones of 'Alien' and 'Bladerunner' featuring a multiplayer games galore.
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Berlin, Germany
A dilapidated space station with overtones of 'Alien' and 'Bladerunner' featuring a multiplayer games galore.
Berlin, Germany
An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.
Berlin, Germany
This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.
Berlin, Germany
A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.
Berlin, Germany
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.
Berlin, Germany
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.
Berlin, Germany
This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.
Bad Muskau, Germany
This permanent exhibition showcases the historical significance and cultivation of pineapples.
Neißeaue, Germany
A massive playground in the woods of Germany.
Görlitz, Germany
One of the few German synagogues to survive the Kristallnacht pogrom has been beautifully restored.
Görlitz, Germany
After falling into disuse, this imposing department store found new life as a Hollywood backdrop and a theater.
Görlitz, Germany
This bust remembers the haunting local legend of a murderous monk.
Lübbenau/Spreewald, Germany
A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.
Jawor, Poland
This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.
Sierpnica, Poland
An extensive network of secret tunnels was created for the Nazi project "Riese."
Świdnica, Poland
This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.
Walbrzych, Poland
A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.
Wrocław, Poland
This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.
Zossen, Germany
A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."
Lübben, Germany
Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.
Forst, Germany
This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.
Miedzianka, Poland
This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.