Places halponton42 Wants to Go

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

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

Berlin's old airport.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

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

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

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

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

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

Tombstones and enigmatic inscriptions hide within a vault beneath a popular London arts venue.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

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

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.