Atlas Obscura & the David Hasselhoff Museum

A few years ago, Nat introduced me to Atlas Obscura.  It's an American website that was founded in 2009.  It doesn't list the usual sightseeing destinations.  Just unusual and obscure travel must-sees that would only be known to locals.  Heck, some of these, even the locals might not know about.  Anytime I travel someplace, I always looks to see what the local Atlas Obscura sights are.

One of the things on Tünde's list this time was to visit the Deutsches Currrywurst Museum.  The museum opened in 2009 on the 60th anniversary of Currywurst being created.  Currywurst and a wacky museum?  Sounded great.  What we didn't know was that the museum closed permanently back in December 2018.

Here's a two-minute YouTube video I found that at least shows what the museum was like.  I bet that the gift shop would have been fun.

©Deutsches Currywurst Museum

So instead, we went to the David Hasselhoff Museum.  Yes, Berlin has a David Hasselhoff museum.  The museum is very small.  It's basically a downstairs hallway that's located at a hostel.  The museum is free and it's open 24/7.  

There's some memorabilia from his shows Knightrider and Baywatch.

There's the cliché that Germans love David Hasselhoff.  One of the main reasons is that on New Year's Eve in 1989, he sang his song Looking for Freedom at the Berlin Wall not long after it fell, back when there were still two Germanys; West Germany and East Germany.

Here's a four-minute video that I found out on YouTube where he's a guest on the Kelly Clarkson show and talks about why he's so popular in Germany.

©The Kelly Clarkson Show

For anyone who missed it, here's his 1989 New Year's Eve performance.

©Schlager für Alle