Queen Sophie-Charlotte was the impetus behind this sprawling palace and gardens (and gave her name to both the building and the district) - her husband Friedrich III (later...

Tiergarten's biggest monument was built in 1871-73 to commemorate Prussian campaigns against Denmark (1864), Austria (1866) and France (1870-71). Originally planted in front of...

A small and unassuming but extremely informative exhibition about the Stasi on the ground floor of the Stasi documentation centre. Ingenious spy equipment and rows of jarred...

One of Europe's largest zoos, with plenty of roaming space for herd animals, although others are still kept in small cages. Resident beasts include bears, elephants, big cats...

Essentially a piece of waste ground that was once the site of the Prinz Albrecht Palais, headquarters of the Gestapo, and the Hotel Prinz Albrecht, which housed offices of the...

This vast planetarium was built in the 1980s. Though changing exhibitions are in German only, the shows in the auditorium are entertaining for all.

The oldest structure in the citadel (and the oldest secular building in Berlin) is the Juliusturm, probably dating back to an Ascanian fortress from about 1160. The present...

Germany's oldest zoo was opened in 1841 to designs by Martin Lichtenstein and Peter Joseph Lenné. With almost 14,000 creatures, it's one of the world's largest and most...