Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

The great Danube river starts here.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

This 8th-century Bavarian monastery is home to an exquisite Baroque-era library.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.