Raven Traveler's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

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I love traveling. When I have the opportunity to do so, I may crosscheck the "Atlas," to see what may be at my travel destination or along the way.

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Berlin, Germany

Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars

A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

Added by ianroderick

Berlin, Germany

Knut the Polar Bear

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Meg

Berlin, Germany

Classic Remise

An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

Berlinblog

Added by Berlinblog

Berlin, Germany

Artpark Tegel

This concrete residential area doubles as an open-air gallery.

olgaberlineu

Added by olgaberlineu

Berlin, Germany

Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten

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

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Berlin, Germany

Schöneberg Gasometer

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

ASpiralArchitect

Added by ASpiralArchitect

Berlin, Germany

Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind

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

travelergwen

Added by travelergwen

Berlin, Germany

Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Added by wandertooth

Berlin, Germany

Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg

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

dusanmil89

Added by dusanmil89

Berlin, Germany

Friedrichsfelde Socialist Cemetery

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

themirroredroom

Added by themirroredroom

Berlin, Germany

The 'Hand with Watch' Sculpture

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

Added by amoregalore

Berlin, Germany

Mengenlehreuhr (Berlin Clock)

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.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Berlin, Germany

German-Russian Museum

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

gypsyblue

Added by gypsyblue

Berlin, Germany

'The Dance of Death'

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

allisonkc

Added by allisonkc

Berlin, Germany

Denkzeichen Georg Elser

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

Michael Inscoe

Added by Michael Inscoe

Berlin, Germany

Tieranatomisches Theater

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

Allison

Added by Allison

Berlin, Germany

Old City Wall of Berlin

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

allisonkc

Added by allisonkc

Berlin, Germany

Puppentheater-Museum Berlin

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

Added by Facebook9700288

Berlin, Germany

Georg-von-Rauch-Haus

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

Added by DoctorMoog42

Berlin, Germany

Abandoned Iraqi Embassy

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

Berlin, Germany

Hansa Studios

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

taotaoholmes

Added by taotaoholmes

Berlin, Germany

Kaninchenfeld (Rabbit Field)

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

ahvenas

Added by ahvenas

Berlin, Germany

Marx and Engels Forum

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

lostlara

Added by lostlara

Berlin, Germany

Prinzessinnengarten

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

lukefater

Added by lukefater