Places todesgleich Wants to Go

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

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.

Early Nazi prison for political prisoners.

This sprawling stone mosaic on Berlin’s Museum Island transforms archaeological finds and local legends into a walkable work of art.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

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

Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.

A socialist building dedicated to teachers showcases one of the largest Soviet mosaics in the world.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.