A Personal Guide to Unusual Destinations

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Heading to Berlin or the former GDR? Looking for traces of the Cold War open for a visit?

A Travel Guide to COLD WAR SITES in EAST GERMANY

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WELCOME to SightRaider! – Travel accounts, photos and how-tos provided by a person who has been on the spot.

On SightRaider you can

  • discover less visited and unusual places to include in your travel plan
  • know in advance what you will find, and get advice on how to visit

You may navigate the site either by

  • clicking on pinpointed locations on the maps below
  • accessing the list of articles through the menu
  • searching the site via the search engine bar

Europe

North America

Legend

  • Green sites can be accessed normally (e.g. museums, open-air exhibitions, public buildings,…)
  • Black sites are inaccessible/not prepared for a normal visit (e.g. private residences, ghost sites,…)
Airbase Monument / Memorial
Air museum Museum
Border (or former border) facility Navy museum
Bunker / Hard artillery position / Shelter Nuclear warheads facility
Cemetery Open-air trenches / Battlefield / Soft artillery position
Detection / Signal relay facility Palace / Headquarter
Intelligence / Repression facility Piece of architecture
Local airport / Base for scenic flights Prison
Military installation / base / grounds Scenic view
Military museum Science museum
Missile base / launch facility Ship

Subjects of interest

  • aircraft collections
  • ghost military bases
  • war museums
  • trenches, forts, battlefields and prisons
  • ships and submarines
  • cities and architecture
  • landscapes and wild nature
  • …more!

SightRaider provides detailed descriptionspractical info for visiting and quick photographic portraits of the highlights of the proposed sites, from somebody who has been on the spot.

And if you want to receive more travel info, please don’t hesitate to ask! Drop me a message through the contact page!