The is an old geisterbahnhof, or railway station, in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and the M13 line of the Berlin Straßenbahn. The station opened on October 1, 1935, at the junction of the Nordbahn line from Berlin to Stralsund with the railway line to Szczecin where the eponymous street named after Bornholm Island crossed the tracks. As Bornholmer Straße station lay right at the Berlin Wall it was closed on August 13, 1961, turning it into one of Berlin's ghost stations, passed by eastern and western S-Bahn trains without stopping. After German reunification Bornholmer Straße was reopened on December 22, 1990. Today, you can still go there to see remnants of the wall, and where people flooded in when the wall came down in 1989. (In the evening of November 9, 1989, thousands of East Berliners and GDR citizens assembled at the bridge demanding entry to West Berlin. At 9.20 p.m. local guards were the first to open the checkpoint and allow people passing through freely to West Berlin, where they were greeted enthusiastically. The event marked the commencement of the fall of the Berlin Wall.).

A contemporary café, great for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea, on the top floor of Dover Street Market, just of Picadilly Circus.

Super nice honest food

This is my favourite café/workspace place. The staff is super friendly and competent. The space has a nice interior and you can order a coffeepot and stick around for a while. In the warm months you can enjoy sunbeds outside 

Opening directly onto the black sanded beach of Canggu, with the soundtrack of the waves rolling in, our beach lounge is for guests to share eats and drinks, relax and dance. With it’s daybed overload and Indian Ocean views you are set for all day lounging. Or choose to indulge in an intimate dinner, served with the freshest ingredients of the island in the casual dining area and see for yourself that The Lawn is the best sunset destination of Bali’s west coast.

This is a hairdressing saloon in a penthouse, this means: terrace, music and cocktails such as the Blondy Mary.

An independent shop featuring a carefully chosen selection of home goods, gifts, stationery, jewelry and more. They also host constantly rotating workshops, and have a corner of the space rented by Olive & June Floral Co. offering bouquets and houseplants.

Rijksmuseum in all glory but the rather overlooked library is a must.

Banging my head against the ceiling on the first floor doesn’t stop me from drinking a coffee in café Latei at Nieuwmarkt. I love it here, especially on rainy days, which is most days in the Netherlands. This small cosy café filled with a thousand colours warms me up.

At the top of a hill on Cathedral street downtown, we find the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore's public library system. Always open to the public, even without a library pass, it is like a great and beautiful sanctuary. Some of my best thinking has taken place in the humanities wing reading room. It is, after all, one of the few places in the city devoted exclusively, and uninhibitedly, to thinking.

This is Gyeonghui Palace and there is a mysterious spring under the rock behind the backyard.

Located less than one mile from my home in downtown, this is the best cafe in the area. It is nestled in a corridor between two buildings on a brick path with beautiful outside seating — quite the hideaway. They have the best prosciutto sandwich and the coffee is delicious.