Places cathi Wants to Go

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

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

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

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.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

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

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

The former home of a mad diplomat is said to still be marked in bloody, arcane scrawls.

A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

Amsterdam's former hotspot for public executions and dissections.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.