Mauerpark Flohmarkt

This guide to the Mauerpark Flohmarkt in Berlin covers ground that spent nearly three decades as part of the Berlin Wall's death strip, before Berliners reclaimed it as a park after 1989 and, in 2004, turned its western half into this Sunday flea market. It follows an Irish bike courier known as Joe Hatchiban, who wheeled a karaoke rig into the hillside amphitheater above the market in February 2009 and asked if anyone wanted to sing. You'll hear how that first Sunday grew into a weekly tradition. Look toward the stone bowl on the slope as you browse the stalls of vinyl and cold war relics.