Photo: DPAWith its deserted bunkers, abandoned barracks and ghostly hospital ruins, Berlin is a magnet for urban explorers who seek out abandoned places and time-travel through the German capital's Cold War past. Abandoned in 1991, it is nicknamed the "zombie hospital" after one of the hundreds of murals on its cob-webbed corridors and dank former patient wards, now occasionally used by partying youths and homeless people. Berlin city official Eva Henkel said police take a dim view of such urban adventures, that visitors enter illegally and at their own risk. To Urbexers, this is as enticing as a holiday brochure, and the hospital is firmly on their Berlin sightseeing map. Ravages of timeFahey, an Irish-born longtime Berlin resident, knows such lost places better than most, having lovingly photographed and described them in his blog and photo book, both called "Abandoned Berlin".

Source: The Local July 28, 2017 03:22 UTC