Places Will Wants to Go

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

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

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

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

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

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

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

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

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

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

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

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

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

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

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

The beloved war-time celebrity spent time in the area before retiring to the Edinburgh Zoo.

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.