Places aalkhaj Wants to Go

A magical, macabre wax museum, beloved by locals, uses real artifacts to depict an assassination from the French Revolution.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

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

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

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

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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

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

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.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

Art and a pun, all in one.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.