Abandoned in Germany

This abandoned hospital has a long history, having housed both German and Soviet soldiers in the course of its life.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.