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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

During this yearly Welsh swimming race, competitors tread through the fetid waters of a bog trench.

This former military airfield's claim to fame came from a lucky accident during the Second World War.

Britain's answer to the NSA is based out of this deliciously-named circular headquarters.

The first privately owned air raid shelter in Britain, built after a horrifying night of Zeppelin bombings.