Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

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An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

No need to strap in for a “ride” on this walkable roller coaster.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

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

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

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

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

One of the few institutions in the United States devoted to the art of decorative bird carving.

This island at Coburg Lake Reserve is home to a sizable, very visible colony of Australian white ibis.

This tall stone wall with no door and ill-matched windows was built centuries ago, and used as a shelter for domesticated pigeons.

A local train station entrance hall doubles as a sanctuary for barn swallows.

When California condors were hovering on the brink of extinction, this recovery program was charged with helping the birds thrive again.