Places ruthi Wants to Go

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Behold, a collection dedicated to Germany's favorite vegetable.

This century-old cinema house has a marquee that has been hand painted by a single man for over 25 years.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

The most peculiar part of Berlin's public transit network is an on-demand rowboat.

A truly obscure, hidden Cold War monument.

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

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

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

Superb sweets await at the first Jewish bakery inducted into Berlin’s prestigious baker’s guild.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

A Syrian family keeps memories of their homeland alive at this sweet shop.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.