Places darkness Wants to Go

A subterranean display of public art and architecture.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

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

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

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

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

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

You've probably seen these distinctive orange-tiled columns on the big screen.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.