Schwules Museum
Mitte
The first gay museum in the world. The permanent exhibit focuses on the history of the Gay Rights struggle, while the museum plays host to numerous rotating...
- Museum
- Cultural & Historical
Museuminsel
Mitte
One of Berlin's signatures is its half-mile-wide cluster of some of Europe's most famous museums. The best deal will always be the museum-card (especially at the...
- Museum
- Cultural & Historical
- Art
- Architecture
Tiergarten
Charlottenburg
The "Central Park" of Berlin, it is the second largest park in Germany, after Munich's Englischer Garten. This orderly, pleasant swatch of green right at the heart...
- Cultural & Historical
- Excursions
- City Tour
- Park
- Walking
- Outdoor Adventure
East Side Gallery
Friedrichshain
Called the longest open-air museum in the world, this nearly-mile-long stretch of the Berlin wall was immediately turned into a canvas by more than a hundred artists...
- Art
- Museum
- Cultural & Historical
- 2
Kreuzberg
Kreuzberg
Since the Wall went up in the sixties and turned this part of town into a virtual island, Kreuzberg has been seen as a beacon for a kind of lawless living....
- Neighborhood
- City Tour
- 1
Brandenburg Gate
Tiergarten
One of Berlin's most famous architectural sights is the Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor), a neoclassical monument from the 18th-century topped with the iconic...
- Cultural & Historical
- Architecture
- 1
Komische Oper Berlin
The Komische Oper Berlin has been producing operas, operettas and musicals on Behrenstraße since 1947 though the neo-baroque auditorium dates to 1882. Because it...
- Performing arts
- 1
Tempelhoferfeld
Neukölln
This giant, youthful activity space (let's call it) is a wide-open, out-of-service airport lot. Allowed to just gradually return to nature and recreational use by...
- Walking
- Playground
- Outdoor Adventure
- Park
- Neighborhood
- Fun & games
- Excursions
- Cultural & Historical
- City Tour
- 1
Görlitzer Park
Kreuzberg
The black sheep among Berlin's parks, the Görlizter is known for drugs, crime, and incorrigible loitering. Often filled with crustpunks and other antagonistic...
- Walking
- Neighborhood
- Park
- 1
The Spree and its canals
The Spree is to the Berlin much like the Seine is to Paris, even though it is far more understated than the latter and therefore can easily be taken for granted....
- City Tour
- Neighborhood
- Water fun
- 1
Deutsches Theater
Mitte
Originally built as the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Städtisches Theater 1850, the Deutsches Theater was founded in 1883 and soon housed one of the best theater company's...
- Performing arts
- 1
Alexanderplatz
Mitte
With the novel by Döblin and its subsequent filming by Fassbinder, Berlin's otherwise bleak Alexanderplatz has a certain pedigree among tourists that it...
- Cultural & Historical
- Architecture
- 1
Former East Berlin (Deeper Prenzlauer Berg)
Prenzlauer Berg
If Kreuzberg and Neukölln prove to be nauseating in their increasingly expedited adoption of a metropolitan, high-style monoculture, the traveler must only venture...
- Excursions
- Cultural & Historical
- Architecture
- Outdoor Adventure
- Neighborhood
Schöneberg
Schöneberg's identity as a gay village goes back to Berlin's sexual liberation scene in the early 20th century and Christopher Isherwood's 1930s tales that inspired...
- Neighborhood
Checkpoint Charlie & Museum
Kreuzberg
The Checkpoint is where the movement between the East and West of the city was controlled by the Soviets after the building of their wall, and its guardhouse is...
- Cultural & Historical
- Museum
Berlin Wall bike tour
If one has a bike and the necessary physical prowess, it would be a shame to miss the opportunity to bike along the route where the Berlin Wall once divided the...
- Cultural & Historical
- City Tour
- Bicycle
- Outdoor Adventure
- Museum
- Excursions
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Oranienberg
Unfortunately, it is hard to avoid Germany's tragic history even as a tourist, and a truly well-rounded experience of the country requires a tough visit to the...
- Other
- Museum
- Excursions
- Cultural & Historical
BKA Theater
Kreuzberg
BKA stands for Berliner Kabaret Anstalt (Berlin Cabaret Establishment), a theater on the fifth floor of a house in Mehringdamm. Here, in the evenings, an ensemble of...
- Performing arts
Gendarmenmarkt
Mitte
Built in 1688, the Gendarmenmarkt is an architectural treasure, a square flanked by the Konzerthaus (concert hall) and the French and German Churches. In the center,...
- Cultural & Historical
- Architecture
Spinnboden
Mitte
Spinnboden is a lesbian archive in a library that was founded as an "Archive to the Discovery and Conservation of Women-Love" in 1973. The strong point of the...
- Museum
- Cultural & Historical
Another Country
Kreuzberg
Founded and still managed by a peculiar but inviting Sophie Raphaeline, Another Country is one of the more famous bookstores in the world and is home to an...
- Store
- Cultural & Historical
Aufschnitt
Friedrichshain
Like a well told joke, it's hard to put a finger on what exactly is so funny, or what's even being made fun of, at Aufschnitt. Self-annointed the world's "first...
- Souvenirs
- Other
- Fun & games
Bearpit Karaoke
Prenzlauer Berg
A popular tradition that takes place in the Flohmarkt in the park on Sundays, emcee Joe Hatchiban has been leading singers and wannabe-singers through hit after hit...
- Fun & games
- Park
- Performing arts
Flohmarkt im Mauerpark
Prenzlauer Berg
The fleamarket ("Flohmarkt") in the Mauerpark is legendary among Berlin's junk-collecting hordes. Every Sunday, the post-Cold-War-wasteland-park is filled with...
- Other
- Park
- Other
Freibad Plötzensee
Wedding
One of Berlin's most popular lakes because of its convenient location, this is one of the more obvious places to lay one's towel. Sandy and family-friendly,...
- Freshwater beach
- Water fun
- Food & drink
- Playground
Galactic Supermarket Record Store
Freidrichshain
For the traveler who also wishes to flip through an impressive collection of used and new records after tiring of clothes at Humana, Galactic Supermarket is a good...
- Specialty Shop
Gay Beach
A load of sand dumped in the middle of the city, Metaxa Bay is another example of Berliners' insistence on having it all. It hosts Gay Beach every Monday, which is...
- Urban beach
Liquidrom
Kreuzberg
It might be surprising to find this level of luxury in Kreuzberg, but inside the mood-lit Kuppelhalle is an incredible sauna landscape, with such wellness wonders as...
- Wellness
Mauerpark
Mitte
Nearby the outdoor DDR memorial-museum, the Mauerpark really feels like leftovers from a divided city. Despite being technically unified as a complete entity after...
- Cultural & Historical
- Food & drink
- Fun & games
- Park
Mitte
Mitte is the youngest district of Berlin, first coming to be after the merger of Tiergarten and Wedding in 2001 into a single borough, although it is home to...
- Walking
- Park
- Museum
- Neighborhood
- Cultural & Historical
- City Tour
- Architecture
