Featured Experiences
56 historic sites in and around Berlin on one street-level map, from Prussian palaces to Nazi Berlin, the battle of 1945 and the Cold War. Each has a visiting guide: opening hours, entry, getting there and the history.
- Sites
- 56
- Free to enter
- 37
- Beyond the city
- 6
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The visiting guides
All 56, most visited first
Walk Through The Brandenburg Gate
Explore The State Museums On Museum Island
Visit The Berlin TV Tower – The Fernsehturm
Cross The Cold War Border At Checkpoint Charlie
Visit The Site Of Adolf Hitler’s Führerbunker
Explore The Reconstructed Berlin Palace
Visit The Reichstag Cupola At Night
Explore The Forum Fridericianum
Shop At The Humboldt University Book Sale
Journey Into The Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe
Step Inside The Neue Wache
Explore The Former Jewish Quarter – Spandauer Vorstadt
Visit The Remains Of The Berlin Wall
Walk Across The Bridge Of Spies
Explore The Topography Of Terror
Climb The Prussian Victory Column – The Siegessäule
Enter The Palace Of Tears – The Tränenpalast
Step Inside The Berlin Olympic Stadium
Explore Erich Mielke’s Office At The Stasi Museum
Walk Along Karl Marx Allee
Visit The Oldest Church In Berlin – The Nikolaikirche
Explore The Berliner Dom
Visit The Grave Of Frederick The Great
Walk Through The Ruins Of Anhalter Bahnhof
Stand On The Platz Des Volksaufstandes
Visit The German Resistance Museum
Visit The Soviet War Memorial In The Tiergarten
See The Georg Elser Memorial On Wilhelmstrasse
Step Inside The Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche
Visit The Gleis 17 Memorial
Visit The Schloss Charlottenburg Mausoleum
Climb The Französischer Dom at Gendarmenmarkt
Explore The Interbau – IBA 57
Explore The Otto Weidt Workshop
Visit Cecilienhof – Site Of The Potsdam Conference
Visit The Stasi Prison In Hohenschönhausen
Spend The Day At Tempelhof Airport
Ride The Fastest Elevator In Europe
Visit The Soviet War Memorial In Treptower Park
Visit The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial
Visit The Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Memorial
Visit Karlshorst – The Site Of The German Surrender
Visit The Socialists Cemetery – Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde
Visit The Soviet War Memorial In Pankow
Visit the Seelow Heights Memorial
Visit The Commonwealth War Cemetery
Cross The Bösebrücke At Night
Explore The Allied Museum In Dahlem
Explore The Spandau Citadel
Visit The Brandenburg T4 Euthanasia Memorial
Visit The Wannsee Conference House
Visit The Jewish Museum
Visit The Jewish Cemetery In Weissensee
Walk Along The East Side Gallery
Explore The Volkspark Friedrichshain Flak Tower
Head Up The Teufelsberg
The sites by theme
Every site, with the short answer
Nazi Berlin (17)
- Bebelplatz (Forum Fridericianum) · freeThe Forum Fridericianum is the square Frederick the Great laid out on Unter den Linden in Berlin-Mitte in the 1740s, today called Bebelplatz, framed by the State Opera, St Hedwig’s Cathedral, the Old Library and Humboldt University.
- Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre Memorial · Brandenburg an der Havel · freeThe Memorial for the Victims of the Euthanasia Murders, at Nicolaiplatz 28/30 in Brandenburg an der Havel, stands where the Nazis gassed more than 9,000 sick and disabled people in 1940, at one of the six killing centres of the Aktion T4 programme.
- Friedrichshain Flak Tower · freeThe Friedrichshain flak tower was one of three pairs of huge concrete anti-aircraft bunkers the Nazis built to defend Berlin.
- Führerbunker site · freeHitler’s Führerbunker was under the garden of the Reich Chancellery, at today’s corner of In den Ministergärten and Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße in Berlin-Mitte, a few minutes’ walk from Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate.
- Georg Elser Memorial · freeThe Georg Elser memorial is a steel outline of Elser’s face, more than 17 metres high, on Wilhelmstraße at the corner of An der Kolonnade in Berlin-Mitte.
- German Resistance Memorial Center · freeThe German Resistance Memorial Center (Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) is Berlin’s museum of the resistance to the Nazis, in the Bendlerblock at Stauffenbergstraße 13–14, a 14-minute walk west of Potsdamer Platz.
- Gleis 17 Memorial · freeGleis 17 (Platform 17) is Deutsche Bahn’s memorial to the deportation of Berlin’s Jews, on a disused platform at Grunewald S-Bahn station in the south-west of the city.
- House of the Wannsee Conference · freeThe House of the Wannsee Conference (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz) is the lakeside villa at Am Großen Wannsee 56–58 in south-west Berlin where, on 20 January 1942, fifteen senior Nazi officials and SS officers met to coordinate the murder of the Jews of Europe.
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe · freeThe Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, usually called the Holocaust Memorial, is Germany’s central memorial to the up to six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
- Olympiastadion BerlinThe Olympiastadion is the stadium the Nazi regime built for the 1936 Summer Olympics, in Berlin-Westend, about 25 minutes west of the centre by U-Bahn or S-Bahn.
- Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum · freeThe Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt is the workshop where the brush maker Otto Weidt employed and protected blind and deaf Jewish workers during the Second World War.
- Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953 · freeThe Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953 is the forecourt of the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, today the Federal Ministry of Finance, at the corner of Wilhelmstraße and Leipziger Straße in Berlin-Mitte.
- Ravensbrück Memorial · Fürstenberg/Havel · freeRavensbrück was the largest Nazi concentration camp for women, on the Schwedtsee lake at Fürstenberg/Havel, about 80 km north of Berlin.
- Reichstag Dome · freeThe Reichstag dome (Reichstagskuppel) is the glass cupola Norman Foster put on top of the Reichstag, home of the German Bundestag, at Platz der Republik 1 by the Tiergarten.
- Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum · Oranienburg · freeSachsenhausen is the former Nazi concentration camp at Oranienburg, about 35 km north of Berlin, and the nearest concentration camp memorial to the city.
- Tempelhof AirportTempelhof Airport is the former city-centre airport in Berlin-Tempelhof, famous for the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift and closed to flights in 2008.
- Topography of Terror · freeThe Topography of Terror is a free documentation centre in Berlin-Kreuzberg, on the site where the Gestapo, the SS leadership and the Reich Security Main Office had their headquarters from 1933 to 1945.
WWII & 1945 (13)
- Anhalter Bahnhof · freeAnhalter Bahnhof was Berlin’s grandest railway terminus, the ‘Gateway to the South’, until war damage and the division of the city finished it off.
- Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery · freeThe Berlin 1939–1945 War Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s cemetery in Berlin, on Heerstraße in Westend (Charlottenburg), about 1.5 km west of the Olympic Stadium.
- Cecilienhof Palace · PotsdamSchloss Cecilienhof is the Tudor-style country house in the Neuer Garten in Potsdam, about 25 km south-west of central Berlin, where Truman, Stalin and Churchill, then Attlee, held the Potsdam Conference from 17 July to 2 August 1945.
- Friedrichshain Flak Tower · freeThe Friedrichshain flak tower was one of three pairs of huge concrete anti-aircraft bunkers the Nazis built to defend Berlin.
- Führerbunker site · freeHitler’s Führerbunker was under the garden of the Reich Chancellery, at today’s corner of In den Ministergärten and Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße in Berlin-Mitte, a few minutes’ walk from Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate.
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church · freeThe Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche is the bomb-damaged church on Breitscheidplatz at the top of the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin-Charlottenburg: the broken tower of the 1895 church, kept as a memorial against war, surrounded by Egon Eiermann’s blue-glass church and bell tower of 1959–63.
- Museum Berlin-Karlshorst · freeKarlshorst is the district in south-east Berlin where the German armed forces signed their unconditional surrender on the night of 8–9 May 1945, ending the Second World War in Europe.
- Neue Wache · freeThe Neue Wache is the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny: a small Neoclassical guardhouse by Karl Friedrich Schinkel at Unter den Linden 4 in Berlin-Mitte, between the Humboldt University and the Deutsches Historisches Museum.
- Reichstag Dome · freeThe Reichstag dome (Reichstagskuppel) is the glass cupola Norman Foster put on top of the Reichstag, home of the German Bundestag, at Platz der Republik 1 by the Tiergarten.
- Seelow Heights Memorial · SeelowThe Seelow Heights Memorial (Gedenkstätte Seelower Höhen) stands on the ridge where the Red Army broke through the last German line before Berlin on 16–19 April 1945, in the town of Seelow, about 70 km east of central Berlin.
- Soviet War Memorial (Schönholzer Heide) · freeThe Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) is a Red Army war cemetery in the Pankow district of north Berlin, where about 13,200 soldiers killed in the Battle of Berlin are buried: more than at any other Soviet memorial in the city.
- Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten) · freeThe Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten is a Red Army memorial and war cemetery on Straße des 17.
- Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park) · freeThe Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park is a military cemetery and monument in south-east Berlin, where more than 7,000 Red Army soldiers killed in the Battle of Berlin are buried.
Cold War & the Wall (18)
- Allied Museum · freeThe Allied Museum (AlliiertenMuseum) tells the story of the American, British and French forces in Berlin from 1945 to 1994.
- Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm)The Berlin TV Tower, or Fernsehturm, is the 368-metre television tower at Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte: the tallest structure in Germany, opened by East Germany on 3 October 1969.
- Berlin Wall Memorial · freeThe Berlin Wall Memorial (Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer) runs for 1.4 km along Bernauer Straße in Berlin-Mitte, from Nordbahnhof towards Mauerpark, on the line where the Wall divided the street.
- Berlin-Hohenschönhausen MemorialThe Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial (Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) is the former central remand prison of East Germany’s Stasi, at Genslerstraße 66 in the north-east of Berlin, about 35 minutes from Alexanderplatz by the M5 tram.
- Bösebrücke (Bornholmer Bridge) · freeThe Bösebrücke, often called the Bornholmer Bridge, carries Bornholmer Straße over the railway between Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding in north Berlin.
- Brandenburg Gate · freeThe Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is Berlin’s 18th-century city gate, built by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1788–91 and crowned by Johann Gottfried Schadow’s Quadriga.
- Checkpoint Charlie · freeCheckpoint Charlie was the Allied crossing point between the American and Soviet sectors of Berlin from 1961 to 1990, on Friedrichstraße where it meets Zimmerstraße, on the line between Kreuzberg and Mitte.
- East Side Gallery · freeThe East Side Gallery is the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall: 1.3 km of concrete along Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain, between Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaum Bridge, painted in 1990 by 118 artists from 21 countries.
- Glienicke Bridge · freeThe Glienicke Bridge (Glienicker Brücke) carries the B1 road across the River Havel between Berlin-Wannsee and Potsdam, about 25 km south-west of central Berlin.
- Hansaviertel (Interbau 1957) · freeInterbau 1957 was West Berlin’s international building exhibition: more than 50 architects, among them Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Oscar Niemeyer and Arne Jacobsen, rebuilt the bombed Hansaviertel on the north-west edge of the Tiergarten as a model ‘city of tomorrow’.
- Karl-Marx-Allee · freeKarl-Marx-Allee is East Berlin’s monumental post-war boulevard, built in the 1950s as Stalinallee and renamed in 1961.
- Memorial to the Socialists, Friedrichsfelde Cemetery · freeZentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, often called the Socialists’ Cemetery, is a municipal cemetery on Gudrunstraße in Berlin-Lichtenberg, 16 minutes’ walk or a short bus ride from S+U Lichtenberg and 12 minutes from S Friedrichsfelde Ost.
- Panoramapunkt, Kollhoff TowerThe Panoramapunkt is the viewing platform on the 24th and 25th floors of the Kollhoff Tower at Potsdamer Platz 1, and the lift that takes you up is billed as the fastest in Europe: about 90 metres in 20 seconds.
- Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953 · freeThe Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953 is the forecourt of the Detlev-Rohwedder-Haus, today the Federal Ministry of Finance, at the corner of Wilhelmstraße and Leipziger Straße in Berlin-Mitte.
- Stasi MuseumThe Stasi Museum (Stasimuseum) is in Haus 1 of the former headquarters of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, at Ruschestraße 103 in Berlin-Lichtenberg, a few minutes’ walk from U5 Magdalenenstraße.
- Tempelhof AirportTempelhof Airport is the former city-centre airport in Berlin-Tempelhof, famous for the 1948–49 Berlin Airlift and closed to flights in 2008.
- TeufelsbergTeufelsberg is a 120-metre hill of wartime rubble in the Grunewald forest in west Berlin, piled over an unfinished Nazi military college.
- Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) · freeThe Tränenpalast, or Palace of Tears, is the former departure hall of the East German border crossing at Friedrichstraße station, where East Germans said goodbye to visitors returning to the West.
Jewish history (9)
- Anhalter Bahnhof · freeAnhalter Bahnhof was Berlin’s grandest railway terminus, the ‘Gateway to the South’, until war damage and the division of the city finished it off.
- Gleis 17 Memorial · freeGleis 17 (Platform 17) is Deutsche Bahn’s memorial to the deportation of Berlin’s Jews, on a disused platform at Grunewald S-Bahn station in the south-west of the city.
- House of the Wannsee Conference · freeThe House of the Wannsee Conference (Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz) is the lakeside villa at Am Großen Wannsee 56–58 in south-west Berlin where, on 20 January 1942, fifteen senior Nazi officials and SS officers met to coordinate the murder of the Jews of Europe.
- Jewish Museum BerlinThe Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) tells the story of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to today, at Lindenstraße 9–14 in Kreuzberg, a 10-minute walk from Checkpoint Charlie.
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe · freeThe Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, usually called the Holocaust Memorial, is Germany’s central memorial to the up to six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
- Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum · freeThe Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt is the workshop where the brush maker Otto Weidt employed and protected blind and deaf Jewish workers during the Second World War.
- Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum · Oranienburg · freeSachsenhausen is the former Nazi concentration camp at Oranienburg, about 35 km north of Berlin, and the nearest concentration camp memorial to the city.
- Spandauer Vorstadt (Jewish Quarter) · freeBerlin’s former Jewish Quarter is the Spandauer Vorstadt and the Scheunenviertel in Berlin-Mitte: the streets north of the Spree around Oranienburger Straße, Große Hamburger Straße and Hackescher Markt.
- Weißensee Jewish CemeteryThe Jewish Cemetery Weißensee (Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee) at Herbert-Baum-Straße 45, in Berlin’s north-eastern Weißensee district, is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe by area: about 42 hectares, with nearly 116,000 graves since it opened in 1880.
Prussia & old Berlin (15)
- Bebelplatz (Forum Fridericianum) · freeThe Forum Fridericianum is the square Frederick the Great laid out on Unter den Linden in Berlin-Mitte in the 1740s, today called Bebelplatz, framed by the State Opera, St Hedwig’s Cathedral, the Old Library and Humboldt University.
- Berlin Palace (Humboldt Forum)The Berlin Palace (Berliner Schloss) is the rebuilt Hohenzollern royal palace on the Spree Island in Berlin-Mitte, opposite the Lustgarten and Museum Island.
- Berliner DomThe Berliner Dom, or Berlin Cathedral, is the largest Protestant church in Germany, built for the Hohenzollern dynasty and consecrated in 1905.
- Brandenburg Gate · freeThe Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is Berlin’s 18th-century city gate, built by Carl Gotthard Langhans in 1788–91 and crowned by Johann Gottfried Schadow’s Quadriga.
- Cecilienhof Palace · PotsdamSchloss Cecilienhof is the Tudor-style country house in the Neuer Garten in Potsdam, about 25 km south-west of central Berlin, where Truman, Stalin and Churchill, then Attlee, held the Potsdam Conference from 17 July to 2 August 1945.
- Charlottenburg Palace MausoleumThe Mausoleum Charlottenburg is a small temple-like tomb in the north-west of the palace garden of Schloss Charlottenburg in western Berlin, built in 1810 for Queen Luise of Prussia.
- Französischer DomThe Französischer Dom is the domed tower on the north side of Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin-Mitte, built in 1780–85 beside the French Church of the city’s Huguenot refugees.
- Grave of Frederick the Great, Sanssouci · Potsdam · freeFrederick the Great is buried on the top terrace of Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, beside the graves of his greyhounds, under a plain stone that reads only ‘Friedrich der Große’.
- Humboldt University Book Sale · freeThe Humboldt University book sale is a row of second-hand book tables, run by private sellers, along the railings of the university’s main building at Unter den Linden 6 in Berlin-Mitte.
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church · freeThe Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche is the bomb-damaged church on Breitscheidplatz at the top of the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin-Charlottenburg: the broken tower of the 1895 church, kept as a memorial against war, surrounded by Egon Eiermann’s blue-glass church and bell tower of 1959–63.
- Museum IslandMuseum Island (Museumsinsel) is the northern end of the Spree island in Berlin-Mitte, where five state museums built between 1830 and 1930 stand together as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- Neue Wache · freeThe Neue Wache is the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny: a small Neoclassical guardhouse by Karl Friedrich Schinkel at Unter den Linden 4 in Berlin-Mitte, between the Humboldt University and the Deutsches Historisches Museum.
- NikolaikircheThe Nikolaikirche (St Nicholas’ Church) is Berlin’s oldest surviving church building, begun around 1230 at the heart of the Nikolaiviertel in Berlin-Mitte, five minutes’ walk from Rotes Rathaus station.
- Spandau CitadelThe Spandau Citadel (Zitadelle Spandau) is a 16th-century Renaissance fortress at Am Juliusturm 64 in Spandau, on Berlin’s western edge, about 25 minutes from Hauptbahnhof by public transport.
- Victory Column (Siegessäule)The Siegessäule, or Victory Column, stands in the middle of the Großer Stern roundabout in Berlin’s Tiergarten park, about 2 km west of the Brandenburg Gate.
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