Pionierlager Klim Woroschilow had its heyday when East Germany still existed. The socialist state’s young and impressionable enjoyed summers of fun at the youth camp.

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

The appropriately named Blackland Rock & Metal Bar has joined Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Lemmy in the otherworld after going up in flames.

Two houses and a cinema clung to life in Waidmanslust, fighting loneliness with earthly possessions before they too went their inevitable way.

The 1920s Delphi silent film theater was reborn as the Moka Efti club in the Babylon Berlin television series, then it was silent once more.

Perhaps the weirdest of Berlin’s buildings, abandoned or not, is the hideously attractive Bierpinsel in Steglitz. It sticks out like a walrus in a tutu.

The rollercoaster story of East Germany's only full-time fun park, later called Spreepark, abandoned and left to rot with its dinosaurs in 2001.

The Kladow casino enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s. Now it's just a shell languishing near the shore of the Havel. But some people are gambling on it opening again one day.

Blub was a swimming and leisure center with pools, slides and crazy stuff that was very popular before the rats noticed it too. Then it was a blubbering mess.

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.

Spreepark is but a shell of what it once was. The city’s plans to refurbish the old fun park involve removing anything that might be fun.

Schloß Dammsmühle was a playground for more unsavory types than you could shake a stick at, from Nazis to Stasi officers. Now there are plans to revive it.

Don’t jump in at the deep end of Pankow Schwimmhalle or you’ll land on your face with a mouthful of broken glass. No water since it was abandoned in 2002.

It was the world's slowest fast food restaurant. You’d be waiting a whopping great time for your burger at the abandoned Burger King on Prenzlauer Allee.

Look for the ghosts of Soviet DJs and find raccoons. Expect the unexpected and you'll find it, just not the unexpected you expected at Funkhaus Grünau.

The saddest brewery in the world was right here in Berlin. At one stage, the Böhmisches Brauhaus in Friedrichshain just wanted to be put out of its misery.

Only ghosts stay at the Ostsee hotel since it was abandoned by humans after Mauerfall. Nobody’s there to check guests in and nobodies take full advantage – they’re ghosts after all.

Tacheles died on Sept. 4th, 2012. The famous former squat and cultural space will become fancy apartments, shops and a hotel. It's a typical Berlin story.

The authorities didn’t consider the wants and needs of a much-loved hippo or three polite penguins when they closed Freibad Wernersee, aka the Wernerbad.

Bärenquell was one of Berlin's popular beers renowned for taste. So it's hard to understand why the brewery went bust. Perhaps the bears drank all the beer.

Süd-Bowling in Steglitz used to be one of Berlin’s favorite bowling alleys, with 16 lanes. The old Kegelbahn was bowled over, abandoned, and replaced by apartments.

Lamentably, it's the end of Grünau’s famous dance halls, the Ballhaus Riviera and Gesellschaftshaus Grünau. The last dance is but a distant fading memory.

Tacheles had a storied story even before squatters took over and turned into one of Berlin’s most popular attractions. Then money came along and killed it.