Ominously nicknamed “Devils Mountain,” Teufelsberg is what you imagine from Berlin, a city still showing the scars of the Cold War. The complex on top of Teufelsberg was a former U.S. listening post during the cold war and the hill itself was actually made from all the rubble of the city after Berlin’s destruction during the Second World War. The hill covers a Nazi military technical college designed by Albert Speers which the Allies unsuccessfully tried to destroy, so instead they covered it with a hill.

The result is an artificial hill rising 80 meters high in West Berlin, comprised of what some estimate to be 400,000-buildings worth of rubble. In an effort to overturn its notorious history, investors planned to build a gleaming high-rise for what was supposed to be a luxury hotel and apartment complex, but rumors (now unsubstantiated) of radioactivity quickly shut the project down. The hill has recently caused another scandal when director David Lynch courted the mountain with plans to erect a university dedicated to Transcendental Meditation in 2007. As of now, Teufelsberg still stands bare and unadorned—an eccentric relic of Berlin’s divided past.

On top of this hill sits the abandoned listening station. A huge facility full of dank passages, jail cells and topped by three goedesic domes. You could spends days exploring the inside of this facility, but if you do, remember to take a torch.

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