Hitler and Honecker were among Beelitz-Heilstätten's famous patients. The former TB sanatorium became the largest Soviet military hospital outside the USSR.

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.

The Elisabeth-Sanatorium was built over 100 years ago, when many such facilities near Berlin treated TB patients. In DDR times, it became a top skin clinic.

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.

Waldhaus Buch continued as a TB sanatorium until its patients fell victim to the Nazis’ euthanasia program to make room for wounded soldiers during the war.

An abandoned ice factory sounds cool but I’m sorry to say it’s not. It’s not, because no Eisfabrik making ice should ever be frozen out and destroyed.

In the DDR's final days, Volkspolizei and Stasi officers arrested protestors and brought them to this police barracks in Blankenburg to brutally beat them.

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.

Monsters now call the abandoned paper factory of Wolfswinkel home, transforming it into a magical fantasy land only the intrepid dare enter.

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.

The Kinderkrankenhaus is krank and no one’s there to provide the cure. No wonder the little souls of the children left behind are desperate for visitors.

Locals were terrorized at Landesamt Lichtenberg till it moved to Friedrichstraße. Now they can keep annoying the Lichtenbergers with less chance of them calling in.