These are the experiences worth building your trip around, from the city's defining history to its parks, palaces, and world-famous nightlife. Save the ones that appeal to you and slot them into your own itinerary.
The Best Things to Do in Berlin
1Must visit
Memorial5.0
Brandenburg Gate
Berlin's symbol: the neoclassical gate that was walled off for decades and became the image of reunification. Free and unmissable.
Mitte
2Must visit
Memorial5.0
East Side Gallery
The longest surviving stretch of the Wall, turned into a 1.3km open-air mural gallery after 1989.
Friedrichshain
3Must visit
Other5.0
Reichstag Building
Walk the free glass dome atop the German parliament for sweeping views and a lesson in transparent democracy.
Tiergarten
4Must visit
Museum5.0
Pergamon Museum
Museum Island's blockbuster: the Ishtar Gate and monumental antiquity, part of a UNESCO ensemble of five museums.
Mitte
5Must visit
Memorial5.0
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
A haunting field of concrete stelae in the heart of the city, with an essential free underground information centre.
Mitte
6
Memorial5.0
Berlin Wall Memorial
The most complete surviving section of the Wall and death strip, the single best place to understand the division.
Mitte
7
Cultural€19 (day pass)
Museum Island Day
Five world-class museums on a Spree island, from Nefertiti's bust to 19th-century painting, on one day pass.
Mitte (Museum Island)5-7 hours
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8Must visit
Club5.0
Berghain / Panorama Bar
The world's most famous techno club, in a former power station. Strict door, no photos, transcendent sound.
Friedrichshain
9
OutdoorFree
Tempelhof Airport Park Cycling
Cycle or skate the runways of a decommissioned airport, now one of the world's largest and strangest urban parks.
Tempelhof2-3 hours
10
Park4.0
Tiergarten
Berlin's vast central park, ideal for a stroll, a boat, or a hidden lakeside beer garden.
Tiergarten
11
Castle4.0
Charlottenburg Palace
The grandest surviving Prussian palace, a baroque counterpoint to the modern city.
Charlottenburg
12
Museum5.0
Jewish Museum Berlin
Daniel Libeskind's powerful zigzag building tells two millennia of German-Jewish history through architecture itself.
Kreuzberg
FAQ
- What is the one thing not to miss in Berlin?
- Walking a stretch of the Berlin Wall, ideally the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse or the East Side Gallery. Nothing else captures the city's twentieth-century story so directly, and both are free.
- What is free to do in Berlin?
- A great deal: the Brandenburg Gate, the Holocaust Memorial, the East Side Gallery, the Berlin Wall Memorial, the Reichstag dome (with booking), the Tiergarten and Tempelhof parks, and most outdoor memorials.
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