Places mcurtis Wants to Go

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Inside this Jewish cemetery is a memorial to soldiers who deserted the German army and were executed.

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

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.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

This dockworkers' lunch joint has been left leaning by a century of storm floods.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Elevated brass pavilions form a kaleidoscope of fragmented views of the surrounding historic cityscape.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Carved scenes of sex work and unglamorous labour beneath a cultural hero.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

A suburban monument preserves the faces of twenty murdered Jewish boys and girls.

Europe’s first football club cemetery, where lifelong supporters remain close to their team even after death.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Multiple versions of this horned sculpture, tied to local legend, have been stolen over the years.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.