Places kazzie Wants to Go

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

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

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater 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.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

This former limestone quarry is now a subterranean wonderland of grand stonework.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".