Places bertshetler Wants to Go

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

The non-native bovine herd was brought in to help conserve these Berlin wetlands.

A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

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

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

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.