Places ashleypinnick Wants to Go

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

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

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

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

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.