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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…
Palaces
Berlin
Glienicke Palace in southwest Berlin is a Neoclassical summer residence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel remodeled in Italian style for Prince Carl of Prussia. It stands in Klein-Glienicke Park right next to the Glienicke Bridge, on the border…
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…
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…