The original Anti-War Museum was founded in 1925 by Ernst Friedrich. In 1933, it was destroyed by the Nazis, and Friedrich fled to Brussels. There he had...

Moored on a post-industrial stretch of the River Spree, the 'bathing ship' is a cargo container turned public pool, with floating wooden lounge deck,...

This magnificent building was constructed of terracotta brick during the 1860s. The history of Berlin up to that point is illustrated in a series of 36...

The Botanical Garden was landscaped at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, it is home to 18,000 plant species, 16 greenhouses and a museum. The...

This small museum is dedicated to the work of Die Brücke ('The Bridge'), a group of Expressionist painters that was founded in Dresden in 1905 before later...

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...

On this organic working farm, children can see how life was lived in the 17th century. Craftspeople preserve and teach their skills. It's best to visit...

The shop front looks more like a deserted department store than a revered confiserie and retains its original 1928 design by Johannes Itten of the Bauhaus....

Extensive, authoritative, beautifully laid out, the Ethnological Museum encompasses cultures from Oceania to Central America to Africa to the Far East....

This impeccably restored stretch of the Wall is as sterile a monument as any in Berlin - with a touch of total inauthenticity, the western side is kept...

This sprawling former remand prison run by the Stasi was used to incarcerate political prisoners - anyone from the leaders of the 1953 workers' uprising to...

On 20 January 1942, a collection of prominent Nazis, chaired by Heydrich, gathered here to draw up plans for the Final Solution, making jokes and sipping...

This memorial stands on the site where the Nazis executed over 2,500 (largely political) prisoners. In a single night in 1943, 186 people were hanged. In...

One of Europe's most important avant-garde outlets has racks of minimalist, electronic, world, industrial and extreme noise. Rare vinyl and import CDs,...