If it’s verboten it’s got to be fun

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ICC

ICC

Maybe the brutaliest brutalist behemoth of them all, the International Congress Center (ICC) is a giant space slug waiting for the day it can go home.

La Pyramide

La Pyramide

Among all of Abidjan’s skyscrapers, none tickles the heavens more than La Pyramide, Rinaldo Olivieri’s brutalist beauty.

Kraftwerk Vogelsang

Kraftwerk Vogelsang

Kraftwerk Vogelsang is a powerless power plant. People gave their lives building it and fighting over it. Now that they’re gone, nobody wants it at all.

Wünsdorf

Wünsdorf

Wünsdorf was the Soviet military forces’ HQ in Germany, Little Moscow, the Forbidden City. The Nazis used it before that for their underground army HQ.

Zambian Embassy

Zambian Embassy

Berlin’s “lion on the loose” has holed up at the abandoned Zambian embassy. She’s seeking asylum from the CDU. AB got an exclusive interview.

Underberg

Underberg

Security was tight in the Underberg herbal rotgut distillery as they thought only five humans knew the secret recipe. Now the secret’s out.

⇒ This way for more tall tales of trespass ⇒

CITY OF ABANDONED SPIES

Teufelsberg Tale

Lew McDaniel of West Virginia worked as a linguist at Teufelsberg, Field Station Berlin, from 1968-71. He tells Abandoned Berlin of life at the spy station.

Teufelsberg

The abandoned NSA Field Station from the frontline of the Cold War, used to spy on Soviet-controlled East Germany on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

Stasi Hotel

East Germany checked out right before the Stasi could check in. Their hotel was never completed. Now it’s just a great hulking ruin between the trees.

Stasi spy station

The Stasi spy station Quelle 1 in Rhinow tapped fiber cable going from West Berlin 250km across the DDR to enemy state West Germany. Sneaky.

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