Places White Rat Wants to Go

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

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

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

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

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

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

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

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

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

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.