Propeller Island City Lodge - the places I have been

Berlin is a city known for the pervasiveness of art and for its tendency toward outlandish character. Propeller Island City Lodge does not disappoint that legacy.

Propeller Island is the pseudonym used by the German artist Lars Stroschen whose usual oeuvre consists of audio-visual creations. This particular construct of his takes D.I.Y to the extreme. This hotel is hand-made down to the last detail; original, uncopied and unique.

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2016

4.07km

Where the Conspirators That Tried to Kill Hitler Met Their Deaths

Discover The Bendlerblock in Berlin, Germany: After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

2012

4.2km

The Bierpinsel

Discover The Bierpinsel in Berlin, Germany: A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

6.27km

Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (today: Beuth Hochschule für Technik)

4.97km

Youth Center (today: Haus Zille)

2018

4.87km

Berlin’s Massive Carillon

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within the popular Tiergarten park.

2011

3.09km

The Frame Collector’s Museum

Discover The Frame Collector's Museum in Berlin, Germany: Antique frame collection with 2,400 frames.

2017

5.53km

Natur-Park Südgelände

Discover Natur-Park Südgelände in Berlin, Germany: Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

2.33km

Residential House Hohenzollerndamm 86

2010

6.15km

Zucker-Museum

Discover Zucker-Museum in Berlin, Germany: A sweet museum focused on beets.

1962

2.31km

Department of architecture, Technische Universität Berlin

2021

2.3km

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Discover Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, Germany: An imperial church bombed to ruins during WWII now stands as a jagged memorial.

2018

3.47km

The ‘Hand with Watch’ Sculpture

Discover The 'Hand with Watch' Sculpture in Berlin, Germany: Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

2021

6.83km

Silent Green Kulturquartier

Discover Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin, Germany: Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

2016

3.06km

Freedom Bell

Discover Freedom Bell in Berlin, Germany: A replica of the Liberty Bell rang daily from West Berlin's City Hall throughout the Cold War.

2013

4.93km

Berlin – out to Potsdam, the Olympic Stadium and much more. Travelbook

2.73km

Berlin, free audio tour from iAudioguide.com

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4.11km

Parking Garage and Apartment Complex Kirchbachstraße 1 & 2

1970

6.63km

Dankeskirche

1958

3.93km

Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste)

2009

1.95km

Berlin Radio Tower

Discover Berlin Radio Tower in Berlin, Germany: A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

2020

5.02km

Alliierten Museum

Discover Alliierten Museum in Berlin, Germany: This museum is home to a sugar sculpture of the Berlin Airlift Memorial.

1966

6.6km

Institute for Hygene and Microbiology (today: Institute for Hygene and Environmental Medicine), Freie Universität Berlin

3.9km

IRI THESys Walkshop on Urban Infrastructure

2012

4.25km

Berlin Botanical Garden

Discover Berlin Botanical Garden in Berlin, Germany: Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

1957

7.48km

Rotaprint Administration Building

2016

3.07km

Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors)

Discover Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors) in Berlin, Germany: A unique Holocaust memorial tells the personal stories of the Jewish residents exiled from greater Berlin.

1956

1.38km

Church at Lietzensee

1.95km

Apartment Complex Uhlandstraße

2009

2.35km

Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten

Discover Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten in Berlin, Germany: Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

2016

4.07km

Where the Conspirators That Tried to Kill Hitler Met Their Deaths

Discover The Bendlerblock in Berlin, Germany: After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

3.11km

Church of the Assumption of Mary (Kirche Mariä Himmelfahrt) (today: Mor-Afrem Church)

2021

2.94km

Platform 17 Memorial

Discover Platform 17 Memorial in Berlin, Germany: This platform is now a memorial dedicated to those who were deported during the Holocaust.

2020

2.52km

Luisenfriedhof II

Discover Luisenfriedhof II in Berlin, Germany: One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.

2013

5.32km

Das Schicksal Der (Fate of) Bravenleavanne

Discover Das Schicksal Der (Fate of) Bravenleavanne in Berlin, Germany: The site of good faith and good nature.

2013

5.79km

Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum

Discover Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum in Berlin, Germany: Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

3.12km

Bürohaus An der Urania (today: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung)

2012

4.2km

The Bierpinsel

Discover The Bierpinsel in Berlin, Germany: A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

2021

4.08km

Feuermelder

Discover Feuermelder in Berlin, Germany: A historic fire call point.

2017

3.89km

Berlin’s Museum of Unheard of Things

Discover Museum of Unheard of Things in Berlin, Germany: A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

1968

6.54km

Schering Headquarters

3.33km

St. Norbert

2017

3.95km

‘Stand By Me’ Tree

Discover 'Stand By Me' Tree in Berlin, Germany: Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

2016

4.45km

Dahlem-Dorf U-Bahn Station Benches

Discover Dahlem-Dorf U-Bahn Station Benches in Berlin, Germany: A traditional U-Bahn station in Berlin gets a string of rather untraditional benches.

2019

3.66km

Berlin Victory Column

Discover Berlin Victory Column in Berlin, Germany: A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

2019

6.96km

‘Der Fall Daidalos und Ikaros’ (‘The Case of Daedalus and Icarus’)

Discover 'Der Fall Daidalos und Ikaros' ('The Case of Daedalus and Icarus') in Berlin, Germany: This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

2019

4.03km

Schöneberg Gasometer

Discover Schöneberg Gasometer in Berlin, Germany: The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

3.75km

Parish Hall 12 Apostles

2009

4.82km

Schwerbelastungskörper

Discover Schwerbelastungskörper in Berlin, Germany: Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

2019

6.21km

Onkel Toms Hütte (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)

Discover Onkel Toms Hütte (Uncle Tom's Cabin) in Berlin, Germany: The 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lends its name to a subway station, a street, and several shops on the edge of Berlin.

7.38km

Colonial Traces – The African Quarter in Berlin-Wedding

2013

2.57km

Mengenlehreuhr

Discover Mengenlehreuhr in Berlin, Germany: The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

2021

3.86km

Classic Remise

Discover Classic Remise in Berlin, Germany: An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

4.81km

Mary Queen of Martyrs Church (Gedenkkirche Maria Regina Martyrum)

2018

3.79km

Museum of Rescued Letters

Discover Buchstabenmuseum in Berlin, Germany: A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.