A closer look
Germany is legendary for the Berlin clubbing scene, specifically Berghain, an exclusive techno temple housed in a massive former power plant where the bouncers famously reject people for completely arbitrary reasons. Tourists spend hours meticulously planning their outfits to look perfectly edgy and indifferent, standing in a freezing line for three hours just to be looked up and down and silently denied entry. It is a bizarre form of travel masochism where people actively seek out the thrill of being judged unworthy by a stern German man with face tattoos. If you actually manage to get inside, you are rewarded with relentless, pounding industrial music and a strict no-photo policy, meaning you cannot even post proof that you survived the world's most stressful door policy
