Berlin
Near the Hauptbahnhof station in Berlin, Germany, the only relict of the Berliner Gewerbeausstellung from 1879 is a higgledy-piggledy staircase.
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Berlin
In the Schönholzer Heide, a 40-meter-long bunker extends between the trees: the last trace of the Luna concentration camp.
Berlin
A half-sunken, rusted, painted and wholly plundered ship has been floating in Berlin's East Harbor for a quarter of a century.
Berlin
With the construction of a turbine factory for AEG in Berlin, architect Peter Behrens did away with the battlements, brick facades and turrets that had characterized industrial architecture until then.
Berlin
Blue ventilation pipes protrude like cannon barrels from the former Research Facility for Experimental Medicine in Berlin, an example of concrete-dominated brutalism.
Berlin
Umlauftank 2 (UT2) is a research facility of the Technical University of Berlin that tests ship hydrodynamics, among other things.
Berlin
The former freight stations of the Potsdamer and the Anhalter Bahn on the banks of the Landwehrkanal in Berlin were merged in 2011 and redesigned as a city park: the Park am Gleisdreieck. That does not mean that all railway heritage has been brushed away.
Berlin
The Spreepark amusement park has been gathering dust since 2001. To avoid bankruptcy, the owner moved some attractions to Peru to start with a clean slate. In vain, as it now appears.
Berlin
In the center of Berlin, the Berlin Wall cut the city in half over 43 kilometers. Another 112 kilometers of wall separated West Berlin from the communist part of the city.
Ruhr Area
The Hansa coking plant in the German city of Dortmund operated for 64 years, but the factory closed its doors in 1992.
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