Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.

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

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

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

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

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

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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.

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

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

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

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

From Iggy Pop to David Bowie to Nick Cave, this regal music studio has served some of the all time greats.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.