Places ruthi Wants to Go

Antique frame collection with 2,400 frames.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Ever-changing museum dedicated to graffiti and contemporary street art.

The best bagels in Berlin are tucked away in an independent bookstore.

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

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

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

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Named after a militant urban guerilla, this famous former squat is a graffiti-covered stronghold of leftist culture.

A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

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

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A remarkable cabinet of curiosities in an art space in the center of Berlin.

From toys to kettles to scientific instruments, this German museum celebrates the beauty of 20th century design.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A poignant memorial that traces two hundred years of German history.

A prime example of socialist modernist architecture, wrapped in a enormous fresco about the media.