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Search this city by topic →See the Pergamon Altar on Museum Island (UNESCO)
See ancient-world masterpieces such as the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate on the five-museum UNESCO island — and photograph it.
Eat currywurst in Berlin
Try currywurst — sausage with curry-ketchup sauce — at a street stall, Berlin's signature street food — and photograph it.
Döner kebab and the Turkish market in Kreuzberg
Eat a döner in the city where it was 'invented'; wander the Turkish market on Maybachufer — and photograph it.
Tour Libeskind's architecture at the Jewish Museum
Experience German-Jewish history in Daniel Libeskind's zigzag steel building full of voids — and photograph it.
Climb the glass dome of the Reichstag
Climb the parliament dome designed by Norman Foster (free, with booking); see the city 360° from the spiral ramp — and photograph it.
See the world's largest mounted dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum
Stand before Giraffatitan, the world's tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton, at Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde — and photograph it.
Tour the Topography of Terror
See the documentation of Nazi terror in the indoor-and-outdoor exhibit on the site of the former Gestapo and SS headquarters — and photograph it.
See 1936 history and match atmosphere at the Olympiastadion
Tour the monumental stadium from the Nazi era; experience the atmosphere of a Hertha match or concert — and photograph it.
Tour the abandoned NSA listening station on Teufelsberg
Tour the abandoned base on the rubble hill, its Cold War radar domes now covered in graffiti — and photograph it.
Climb the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom)
Climb to the gallery of the grand domed church for views of Museum Island and the city — and photograph it.
See the twin churches of Gendarmenmarkt
Stand on Berlin's most beautiful square with its concert hall and the German and French twin cathedrals — and photograph it.
See the bust of Nefertiti at the Neues Museum
Stand before the world-famous 3,300-year-old bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti — and photograph it.
Walk the concrete labyrinth of the Holocaust Memorial
Walk among the 2,711 concrete slabs of the memorial, disoriented by the undulating ground — and photograph it.
Tour the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse
See the reality of the division at the memorial where an original section of the Wall is preserved with its death strip — and photograph it.
Tour the Stasi prison (Hohenschönhausen)
Tour the East German secret police's political prison, guided by former inmates — and photograph it.
See the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery
Walk the longest surviving stretch of the Wall, with hundreds of murals including the 'Fraternal Kiss.' — and photograph it.
Stand beneath the Brandenburg Gate
Stand beneath the neoclassical triumphal gate that symbolizes German reunification; feel the weight of history on Pariser Platz — and photograph it.
Live East German daily life at the DDR Museum
Sit in a Trabant and tour a DDR apartment in the hands-on, interactive museum of the Eastern Bloc — and photograph it.
See the Cold War border at Checkpoint Charlie
Learn about the divided city at the most famous crossing between East and West Berlin, with its museum and open-air exhibit — and photograph it.
Wander the courtyard labyrinth of the Hackesche Höfe
Browse the cafés and boutiques of the complex of eight interconnected courtyards with art nouveau facades — and photograph it.
Discover Berlin street art and RAW-Gelände
Tour the giant graffiti of Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg and the art-and-party grounds in the old train depot — and photograph it.
Walk along Unter den Linden
See Prussian architecture on the historic linden-lined boulevard from the Brandenburg Gate to Museum Island — and photograph it.
Sunday flea market and karaoke at Mauerpark
Browse the Sunday flea market and watch the open-air karaoke before thousands in the amphitheatre — and photograph it.
Tour Charlottenburg Palace and its gardens
Tour the baroque rooms and expansive gardens of Berlin's largest Prussian palace — and photograph it.
Watch Berlin from the Fernsehturm (TV Tower)
Climb the 368 m tower at Alexanderplatz; watch Berlin from above in the revolving restaurant — and photograph it.
Take a boat tour on the River Spree
See the city from the water on a river tour passing Museum Island, the government quarter and under the bridges — and photograph it.
See the Soviet Memorial in Treptower Park
Tour the monumental, colossal memorial built for the Soviet soldiers who died in World War II — and photograph it.
Climb the Victory Column (Siegessäule) in Tiergarten
Climb the gold-angel column at the center of the city's central park for views down the radial boulevards — and photograph it.
Cycle the old airport runway at Tempelhofer Feld
Cycle, skate or fly a kite on the runways of the closed historic airport — and photograph it.
Hear a concert at the Berlin Philharmonic
Hear one of the world's finest orchestras in Hans Scharoun's iconic 'vineyard' concert hall — and photograph it.
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