Places Edited by rudimarnitz

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

A bizarre representation of our ever forward moving society.

This small museum takes the business of clowning quite seriously.

This stone in Lake Geneva was once the reference point used to determine altitude in Switzerland.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

An unusual building on a "desolate hill" features the works of an Icelandic sculptor.

One of the most historical literary characters continues to stroll his hometown.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

This extraordinary, multi-pillared monument depicts the fascinating history of Georgia.

Dozens of large, brightly-colored paintings adorn the walls of the "street art capital of Iceland."

Georgia’s answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation’s great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

An abandoned village where the ruined foundations cling to a cliff.

This rare surviving broch is one of Scotland's most impressive Bronze Age structures.

An unexpected ghost village lurks on the southeast coast of Tenerife.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

Along this wire fence, travelers have been leaving a particular memento since 2012.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

Several of these strange cone-shaped bunkers can still be seen around the former Nazi headquarters.