Berlin

Berlin Restaurant Offers Caveman Food

Caveman © lord-jim Have a vegan friend who you really want to one-up in the food self-restriction game? Then head to Berlin and become part of the burgeoning “Paleolithic diet movement.” That’s right — you can only eat food that our cavemen ancestors had available. At first glance, Berlin’s Sauvage restaurant looks much like many [...]

An Abandoned Cold War Listening Station Built on the Ruins of Nazi Berlin [Gallery]

Abandoned Spy Station, Germany © nate bolt Like massive golf balls, the tattered shells of radomes long since left to the ravages of nature litter the landscape. Once, men were stationed here whose duty it was to listen in on the conversations of those on the other side of the Iron Curtain, thereby gathering valuable [...]

Check Out Berlin’s Currywurst Museum

Currywurst and Fries © toolmantim From drunk food to a city’s treasured dish, follow the rise of Berlin’s currywurst at a museum dedicated to the delicacy and its fans. The Deutsches Currywurst Museum explores the history and legend behind the unique German sausage. The museum has multiple interactive exhibits including spice sniffing stations and a [...]

Berlin Water Sommelier Helps Diners Pair H20

Water glass © blmurch In what is somehow not a practical joke to show just how far people will go to appear cultured, First Floor restaurant in Berlin now offers water sommelier Jerk Martin Riese (yes that’s his real aptonymous first name) to help patrons pair their wines with appropriate artisan water. From Der Spiegel: [...]

10 Cities with the Best Free Attractions

Pike Place Market Seattle, Washington © two gypsy hearts Broke ass budget backpackers can even afford these sites. From Seattle to Hong Kong, AOL Travel has a list of cities with attractions priced just right (free!).

Follow the Fairy Tale Road in Germany

Once Upon A Time Generations of children throughout Germany and the rest of Europe and America if not the world, will have read or heard the stories of Rapunzel, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood to name a few. The landscapes and towns which provided the enchanting settings for these magical fables are real [...]

Trabant Tourist “Tank” Ready to Roll Through Berlin

Cold war buffs will soon be able to roll through Berlin in a mini tank built from East Germany’s best known car — the Trabant. Painted camouflage green and decked out with a fake cannon on the roof, the Trabant tank is the latest attraction tapping into the German capital’s unique postwar history. Germany’s oddities [...]

Photo of the Moment: The Reichstag, Berlin

Photo of the Moment: Cascade at Kreuzbergdenkmal, Berlin

Signspotting: Crystal Clear Bathroom Sign, Berlin

GPS Technology Helps Visitors Trace the Berlin Wall

Visitors to Berlin are often disappointed to find few remaining traces of the Berlin wall, and no delineation between the eastern and western parts of the city. When the wall came down, most of it was sold, frustrating history buffs who might otherwise want to visit the forbidding structure that symbolized the difference between two [...]

Photo of the Moment: Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin

Mass Transit Strike Hits Berlin

It pulses through the city, pushing people from the outer suburbs to the heart of Mitte, from home to work, to school, to concerts and exhibits, to friends’ houses, to sports events, to anywhere you might want to go. In the winter cold and wet, Berlin’s public transit network is a warm way across town. [...]

Berlin Hotel Offers World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium

World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium, Berlin At the Radisson SAS hotel in Berlin Mitte, you can zip up and down the building in an elevator that’s encased inside a giant aquarium. At 25 meters tall, and 11 meters wide, the aquarium is the largest acrylic glass cylinder in the world and contains 900,000 liters of sea [...]