A strong contender for best club in the city, if not Europe. In basic terms, it's a techno club in a former power station, but it has to be experienced to...

Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, designed the elegant white building that now houses this absorbing design museum. The permanent exhibition...

Infamously gutted by fire on 17 February 1933 - an event the Nazis used as an excuse to suspend basic freedoms - the Reichstag is today home to the...

This is 'Ostalgia' in action. Touch screens, sound effects and even the 'DDR Game' mean that the more distasteful aspects of East German life are cheerfully...

After many years of controversy, Peter Eisenmann's 'field of stelae' - 2,711 of them, arranged in undulating rows on 19,704sq m (212,000sq ft) of city block...

Well lit and airy (for Berlin), this L-shaped bar competes with Schwarzsauer to be the primary Kastanienallee hangout. The food, an odd mix of Asian and...

Queen Sophie-Charlotte was the impetus behind this sprawling palace and garden complex (and gave her name to both building and district) - her husband...

The Currywurst is justly famous at this venerable sausage stand, which has been under the same family management since 1930. It serves a variety of other...

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 most...

Built in the late 1960s at a time when relations between East and West Berlin were at their lowest ebb, the 368m (1,207ft) Television Tower - its...

One of the world's major archaeological museums, the Pergamon should not be missed. Its treasures, comprising some of the Antikensammlung (Collection of...

Originally designed by Werner March and opened in 1936 for the Olympics, the 74,000-seat stadium underwent a major and long overdue refitting for the 2006...

Constructed in 1791, and designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans after the Propylaea gateway into ancient Athens, the Brandenburg Gate was built as a triumphal...

On an inlet off the Spree just over the border into Treptow, this popular timbered bar occupies an old boathouse, several floating docks and a...