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Museums
Berlin
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Natural History Museum) is the largest natural history museum in Germany and one of the best things to do in central Berlin. In its glass-roofed main hall you stand beneath the skeleton of Giraffatitan, re…
Museums
Berlin
The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island is home to the world-famous bust of Nefertiti. It also houses the Museum of Prehistory and Early History, with the golden Berlin Gold Hat and Heinrich Schliemann's finds from Troy. Just as memorab…
Landmarks
Berlin
The Oberbaum Bridge in Berlin is a red-brick landmark spanning the River Spree between the districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain. Built in the 1890s in a neo-Gothic style, it carries an elevated U-Bahn line, a road, and walkways, and f…
Landmarks
Berlin
The Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion) is one of the most historic sports venues in the world. Built for the 1936 Olympics, it has since hosted the 2006 World Cup final, the 2015 Champions League final and the Euro 2024 final. On non-…
Gardens & parks
Berlin
Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island) in Berlin is a car-free island in the Havel River on the city's southwestern edge, reached only by a short ferry ride. It feels worlds away from the capital: a whimsical white palace, centuries-old oaks, open m…
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…