Places kathykate Wants to Go

This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

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

A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

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

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

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

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

This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

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

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A century-old shot ball factory tower is open to the public once a year.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.

Art and a pun, all in one.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.