Teufelsberg

Among the lesser-known-but-still-cool places recommended to us by Helen, there was Teufelsberg, an abandoned American spy-station built at the beginning of the Cold War. We took the car west out of town and made a hike up to it. Unfortunately, they can't just let people climb over this thing because it is in bad disrepair and apparently there is leftover radioactive junk. So they only open the gate for a couple hours on weekends for chaperoned tours. We made the most of it though: walked around the double-fenced perimeter and found a knoll farther away to get a view of the tower and a great panorama of West Berlin.

It's getting dark, no more pictures... time to say goodbye to Berlin!