Places SamWandersEarth Wants to Go

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

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

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

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.

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

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

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

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

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

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

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

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

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

This "living building" on Georgia Tech's campus is home to a blueberry orchard, honeybees, and more than 900 solar panels.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.