53 attractions in Berlin, including Stasi Museum, Teufelsberg and Tierpark Berlin. Map, details and practical tips before you go.
Museums
Berlin
The Stasi Museum in Berlin's Lichtenberg district occupies Building 1 of the former headquarters of East Germany's Ministry for State Security. From here Erich Mielke ran the secret police for more than three decades. Today you can walk th…
Historic sites & memorials
Berlin
Teufelsberg in Berlin is one of the capital's most unusual attractions: a hill built from World War II rubble, topped by a former Cold War listening station with huge white radar domes, Europe's largest street art gallery and a panoramic v…
Zoos
Berlin
Tierpark Berlin in the eastern district of Lichtenberg is Europe's largest landscape zoo, spread across 160 hectares of meadows, woodland and ponds around a baroque palace. Founded in 1955 as East Berlin's answer to the older zoo in the We…
Museums
Berlin
The Tränenpalast ("Palace of Tears") next to Friedrichstraße station in central Berlin was the departure hall of East Berlin's busiest border crossing during the Cold War. East Germans said goodbye here to relatives from the West, never su…
Fortresses
Berlin
The Spandau Citadel (Zitadelle Spandau) is one of the best-preserved Italian Renaissance fortresses in Europe and a rewarding day trip within Berlin. It sits at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers in the city's west, far from the…