Berlin, Germany
'Stand By Me' Tree
Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Berlin, Germany
Mengenlehreuhr (Berlin Clock)
The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.
Berlin, Germany
The Clock of Flowing Time
An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.
Berlin, Germany
Schwarzes Café
Dine at a legendary after-hours joint frequented by David Bowie and Iggy Pop.
Berlin, Germany
Gründer Geist
Keep your eyes out for this "ghost" and walking pun.
Berlin, Germany
Hansaviertel
In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.
Berlin, Germany
The 'Hand with Watch' Sculpture
Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.
Berlin, Germany
Konditorei Buchwald
For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”
Berlin, Germany
Feuermelder
A historic fire call point.
Berlin, Germany
Carillon Berlin-Tiergarten
One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.
Berlin, Germany
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
Berlin, Germany
Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism
A memorial in the Tiergarten is a reminder of the suffering inflicted on homosexuals by the Nazi regime.
Berlin, Germany
The Bebelplatz
The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".
Berlin, Germany
'Buttbrunnen'
Largely overlooked, this little fountain on Museum Island is a whimsical tribute to a Prussian king nicknamed the “Fatty Flounder.”
Berlin, Germany
Stadtbahn Viaduct World War II Damage
Reminders of the Battle of Berlin still scar the railway.
Berlin, Germany
Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station
Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.
Berlin, Germany
‘Trains to Life – Trains to Death’
A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.
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Berlin, Germany
Arthouse Tacheles
An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.
Berlin, Germany
Monsterkabinett
A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind
A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.
Berlin, Germany
Haus Schwarzenberg Street Art Alley
A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.
Berlin, Germany
Moses Mendelssohn Memorial
The original burial place of this preeminent 18th-century Jewish philosopher was razed by the Nazis.
Berlin, Germany
Marx and Engels Forum
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
