Places BrnoChris Wants to Go

Six paintings reminding you that death is integral part of everyday life.

A museum entirely dedicated to Bergamo’s tradition of puppetry.

Beautifully decorated tarot cards from the Middle Ages.

It's believed that the dead were once taken out of houses through these now walled-up doors.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

Angels and demons watch over newspapers in this deconsecrated church.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

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

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

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

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

Once a path for Jewish funeral processions, this unassuming alleyway is rich in local lore.

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

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.