Places jvail Wants to Go

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

A historic fire call point.

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

The spiciest place in town - where one can and may cry

Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

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

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

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

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

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

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

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

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

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

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.