Gruselkabinett Berlin

This ‘horror cabinet’ is housed within a WWII air-raid shelter, once part of a network of bunkers, including Hitler’s, which extended for miles beneath the city. A small exhibit in the basement has displays on the bunker’s history along with wartime-era newspapers, recordings of Allied plane attacks and a smattering of actual belongings left behind by those once holed up here during the bombing raids. Other exhibits are more hokey than historical, but seem to score well with teenaged school groups thanks perhaps to the eccentric couple who run the place. On the ground floor, groaning dummies demonstrate the niceties of medieval surgery techniques, and upstairs you’ll be spooked by creepy characters while exploring a dark and dank maze. Things can get pretty scary and perhaps too intense for tender souls or little kids.