Germany
Things to do in Berlin
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Sightlore has 33 places to explore in Berlin, and 33 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Berlin's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Berlin Wall Memorial
The Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) commemorates the division of Berlin by the Berlin Wall and the deaths that occurred there.
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Topography of Terror
The Topography of Terror is an outdoor and indoor history museum in Berlin, Germany.
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East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree.
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Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the Western Bloc's name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, becoming a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West.
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Nikolaiviertel
The Nikolaiviertel is an old quarter of the German capital of Berlin, founded c. 1200. Together with nearby Cölln, they jointly make up Alt-Berlin, the reconstructed historical heart of the city.
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Gendarmenmarkt
The Gendarmenmarkt (German for 'Men-at-arms market') is a square in Berlin and the site of an architectural ensemble that includes the Berlin concert hall, along with the French and German Churches.
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Reichstag
The Reichstag is a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the Bundestag parliament. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the president of Germany.
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Museum Island
The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites in Europe.
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
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Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany.
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Discovery routes in Berlin
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Berlin: Reichstag to Alexanderplatz
From the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate to the Holocaust Memorial, Gendarmenmarkt, Museum Island and Berlin Cathedral, the Nikolai Quarter and the TV Tower on Alexanderplatz.
Along the Berlin Wall
From the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße to Checkpoint Charlie, the Topography of Terror, Potsdamer Platz and the murals of the East Side Gallery.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Reichstag
The Reichstag is a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin that is the seat of the Bundestag parliament. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the president of Germany.
Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany.
Gendarmenmarkt
The Gendarmenmarkt (German for 'Men-at-arms market') is a square in Berlin and the site of an architectural ensemble that includes the Berlin concert hall, along with the French and German Churches.
Nikolaiviertel
The Nikolaiviertel is an old quarter of the German capital of Berlin, founded c. 1200. Together with nearby Cölln, they jointly make up Alt-Berlin, the reconstructed historical heart of the city.
Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie (or "Checkpoint C") was the Western Bloc's name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, becoming a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West.
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz (Potsdam Square) is a public square and traffic intersection in the centre of Berlin, Germany, lying about 1 km (1,100 yd) south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corner of the Tiergarten park.
Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz (Alexander Square) is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin.
Berlin State Opera
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden (lit. State Opera under the Lime Trees), also known as the Berlin State Opera, is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany.
Charlottenburg Palace
Schloss Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg Palace) is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough, and is among the largest palaces in the world.
Rotes Rathaus
The Red Town Hall is the town hall of Berlin, Germany, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz. It is the seat to the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the government (the Senate of Berlin) of the state of the city.
Soviet War Memorial
The Soviet War Memorial is a war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park.
Museums
Museum Island
The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites in Europe.
Berlin Wall Memorial
The Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) commemorates the division of Berlin by the Berlin Wall and the deaths that occurred there.
Topography of Terror
The Topography of Terror is an outdoor and indoor history museum in Berlin, Germany.
Alte Nationalgalerie
The Alte Nationalgalerie (lit. Old National Gallery) is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.
Altes Museum
The Altes Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.
Pergamon Museum
The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island is famous for monumental works such as the Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and the Market Gate of Miletus.
Egyptian Museum of Berlin
The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of Berlin is home to one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts, including the Nefertiti Bust.
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe.
Bode Museum
The Bode Museum, formerly called the Emperor Frederick Museum, is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin.
Gemäldegalerie Berlin
The Gemäldegalerie (German, lit. 'Painting Gallery') is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) is displayed.
Neues Museum
The Neues Museum (German, New Museum) is a listed building on the Museum Island of Berlin.
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin ('Museum of Natural History Berlin') is a natural history museum located in Berlin, Germany.
Places of worship
Berlin Cathedral
Berlin Cathedral, also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb (House of Hohenzollern) at the Lustgarten on the Museum Island in central Berlin.
St. Hedwig's Cathedral
St. Hedwig's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Berlin on Bebelplatz in the historic centre of Berlin.
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, mostly known simply as the Memorial Church (Gedächtniskirche) is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a regional body of the Protestant Church in Germany.
Marienkirche (Berlin-Mitte)
St. Mary's Church, known in German as the Marienkirche or St.-Marien-Kirche, is a church in Berlin, Germany. It is located on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße (formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße) in central Berlin, near Alexanderplatz.
Monuments
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.
Fernsehturm Berlin
The Fernsehturm in central Berlin was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic as both a functional broadcasting facility and a symbol of communist power.
East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery memorial in Berlin-Friedrichshain is a permanent open-air gallery on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall in Mühlenstraße between the Berlin Ostbahnhof and the Oberbaumbrücke along the Spree.
Siegessäule
The Victory Column is a monument in Berlin, Germany.
Nature
Berlin Zoological Garden
The Berlin Zoological Garden is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers 35 hectares (86.5 acres) and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten.
Großer Tiergarten
The Tiergarten, formal German name: Großer Tiergarten, is a prominent park in Berlin's inner-city area, located completely in the district of the same name.
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