Hospitals
Beelitz-Heilstätten: the sanatorium the forest took back
Tuberculosis wards built for fresh air and light, now open to nothing but the weather.
Region · Germany
Abandoned Germany
Sanatoriums, bunkers and borderland. Germany's abandoned places carry the weight of the twentieth century — some of them literally, in concrete.
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The entries
Every place we've documented in Germany
Each entry explains the history, the present condition, and how to appreciate the place responsibly — without ever encouraging trespassing.
Bunkers
Dülmen-Visbeck: the Cold War bunker under a quiet field
A concrete world built for a war that never came, hidden in plain sight in a German forest.
Theme Parks
Spreepark: the East Berlin amusement park left to rust
A state amusement park in the woods of East Berlin, closed and left with its rides still standing.
Bunkers
Teufelsberg: the spy station built on a hill of rubble
A hill built from the ruins of Berlin, crowned by the listening station that spied on the East.
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