/// Berlin 1936 Olympic Village

Where:  Germany - Elstal, Berlin

Source:  28 Days Later

What:  The Olympic Village has not been empty for all of those 80 years. During World War II, the German armed forces turned it into a military training establishment. At the end of World War II, the Olympic Village had another role, serving for a spell as a refugee camp for those fleeing from the former German-occupied territories or from the Baltic countries. That chapter ended with the arrival of Soviet army forces. The Olympic Village then became a huge-sized military barracks, complete with wall paintings of the Red Army's triumphant race across eastern Europe in 1944-1945. Some 40,000 officers and troops were stationed in the village, or close by, during the 60s - 80s, part of the half-a-million strong Soviet force that formed a menacing ring around isolated West Berlin during the Cold War era until being withdrawn in 1992. But it has been stood empty since the Soviet withdrawal in 1992.

/// "Spree Park" Amusement Park

Where:  Germany - Plänterwald, Berlim

Source:  Urban Travel

What:  The entertainment park was opened in 1969 as Kulturpark Plänterwald, covering an area of 29.5 hectares. The area is situated in the north of the Plänterwald, next to the river Spree. It was the only constant entertainment park in the GDR, and the only such park in either East or West Berlin. Since 2002 the park has not opened for visitors. In August 2002 the park was declared completely insolvent.

/// Falkenhagen Industrial Complex

Where:  Germany - Falkenhagen
Source:  Jakob Ehrensvärd
What:  In the eastern part of Germany, the Nazis built a top-secret vast industrial complex in 1938, including underground production bunker and supporting facilities. The main objective was to produce industrial quantities of chlorine trifluoride. It was abandoned and retrieved a few times with different purposes. However, with the unification of Germany in 1989-90, the Falkenhagen complex again became the scene of dismantling and abandonment and the last Russians left in 1992. Left were a vast amount of meticulously stripped installations including the giant underground bunker.