Places Populaatti Wants to Go

This stone amphitheater was once part of Nazi Germany's plan to promote propaganda.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

A dilapidated space station with overtones of 'Alien' and 'Bladerunner' featuring a multiplayer games galore.

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

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

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

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

One of the largest refracting telescopes in the world, and the first built specifically for studying astrophysics.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

How did this desert wind up in the middle of a Polish forest?

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

The waters of these secluded falls are said to have healing powers.

A small museum contains one of the largest collections of ethnic and traditional headgear in the world.

Dubbed "Wistom" by locals, this abandoned factory is an urban explorer's dream.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

The oldest wind turbine in Europe, constructed by a group of friends in 1932.

Come to this Polish museum to take a good, clean look at filth.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.