Places michilio Wants to Go

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

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

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

Berlin's old airport.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

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

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

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.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

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

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

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

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.