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This is the most spiritually similar North American city. Detroit was built by industry, gutted by history, and is now being reimagined by artists, squatters, and visionaries. The Heidelberg Project (art from ruins), the abandoned Michigan Central Station (your analog to Berlin’s Teufelsberg listening station), and the after-hours underground parties in Corktown. Like Berlin, Detroit has a deep, melancholic electronic music history (techno was born here). Searching for Berlin in Detroit means accepting decay as a creative medium rather than a problem to be solved. Searching for- berlin in-
The deeper you go, the stranger it gets. If you are Wisconsin, you will find a city located in Green Lake County. It was once known simply as "Strong's Landing," but the influx of German immigrants in the mid-1800s prompted a rebranding. For a time, it was a center of culture and commerce for the German diaspora. Head to Mauerpark for karaoke and vintage finds