Germany’s capital city and largest city.

The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after the successful restoration of order during the early Batavian Revolution.

Berlin Cathedral is the short name for the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church in Berlin, Germany.

Berlin Cathedral and the Spree river, from Friedrichsbrücke.

The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin is a gallery showing a collection of Neoclassical, Romantic, Biedermeier, Impressionist and early Modernist artwork, part of the Berlin National Gallery, which in turn is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

The Pergamon Museum is situated on the Museum Island in Berlin.

The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon.

The Altes Museum (Old Museum) on Museum Island was built between 1823 and 1830 by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the neoclassical style to house the Prussian royal family’s art collection.

The Bode Museum is one of the group of museums on the Museum Island in Berlin, Germany.

The AquaDom in Berlin, Germany, is a 25 metre tall cylindrical acrylic glass aquarium with built-in transparent elevator.

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, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold.

[start]The German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum, or DHM) is often viewed as one of the most important museums in Berlin and is one of the most frequented. An extension by I. M. Pei features a glass-walled spiral staircase.

The International Trade Center (Internationales Handelszentrum or IHZ) is a distinctive high-rise building, with a white frame around a black square of windows. Designed by Erhardt Gißke, the building opened in 1978. This view is from the Reichstag dome.

The Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Center (Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum) is the central library of the Humboldt University of Berlin. The ten-storey building by the Swiss architect Max Dudler was opened in 2009 and is named after the Brothers Grimm. The brothers were the best-known collectors of folk tales, and popularized traditional oral tales such as “Cinderella”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Rapunzel”, “Rumpelstiltskin”, ”Sleeping Beauty” and “Snow White.“ Their first collection of folk tales was published in 1812.

Designed by Micha Ullmann, empty bookshelves, enough to hold all 20,000 burned books, visible below the pavement of Bebelplatz in Berlin.

The equestrian statue of Frederick the Great is an outdoor sculpture in cast bronze at the east end of Unter den Linden in Berlin, honouring King Frederick II of Prussia.

The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of Berlin housing the German orchestra Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

The Schiller Monument is located in central Berlin on Gendarmenmarkt, in front of the flight of steps leading up to the former royal theater, today a concert hall.

Französischer Dom is the colloquial designation for the “French Church of Friedrichstadt” located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from the Deutscher Dom, formerly a church of German-speaking congregants.

The Neue Kirche, is located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from French Church of Friedrichstadt.

Houseball is a 1993 sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. It represents the idea that all of one’s possessions could be wrapped in a cloth and rolled to the next destination.

The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is a museum in Berlin.

Sauerbruch Hutton is an architecture practice based in Berlin, Germany.

The Spy Museum Berlin is a private Museum in Berlin which was opened to the public on 19 September 2015.

The Oberbaum Bridge is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin’s River Spree, considered one of the city’s landmarks.

Landgericht Berlin is a regional courthouse with an entrance hall seemingly from a fairy tale.

The Fernsehturm is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany.

The Fernsehturm Berlin from Panorama Terrace on the 40th floor of Park Inn by Radisson.

The Fernsehturm, due to its location near Alexanderplatz, is occasionally called Alex Tower.

[start]The Neptune Fountain (Neptunbrunnen), built in 1891 by Reinhold Begas, honors the four main rivers of Prussia.

The Rotes Rathaus is the town hall of Berlin, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz.

The World Clock, also known as the Urania World Clock is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin.

The Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus is a legislative building by Stephan Braunfels near the Reichstag. Two super-imposed pedestrian bridges over the river Spree connect to the Paul-Löbe-Haus.

The Paul-Löbe-Haus is a legislative building by the Reichstag.

The Sony Center is a JAHN designed Sony-sponsored building complex located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany.

Victoria on top of the Victory Column is a 8-metre-high sculpture known as Goldelse (“Golden Lizzy”).

The view from Victory Column is the best cityscape of Berlin. Beyond the trees of Tiergarten park are (left to right): the Reichstag (with its glass dome), the IHZ building (square), the Fernsehturm (tallest tower), Berlin Cathedral (green dome), Rotes Rathaus (red tower), Brandenburg Gate, and the French Cathedral (blue top).

The Berlin Zoological Garden is the oldest and best known zoo in Germany.

The Soviet War Memorial is one of several war memorials in Berlin, capital city of Germany, erected by the Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80,000 soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces who died during the Battle of Berlin in 1945.

The Berliner Philharmonie is a concert hall in Berlin, Germany and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Gemäldegalerie is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums is displayed.

The Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century.

The Tempodrom is an event venue in Berlin.

The Rare Haul (Der seltene Fang) is a statue by Ernst Herter in Victoria Park (Victoriapark), which opened in 1894.

The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin.

The Jewish Museum Berlin is one of the largest Jewish Museums in Europe.

The East Side Gallery is an international memorial for freedom.

Olympiastadion is a sports stadium built for the 1936 Olympics.

The Berliner Funkturm or Funkturm Berlin is a former broadcasting tower in Berlin.

Charlottenburg Palace is the largest palace in Berlin, Germany.

The Spandau Citadel is a fortress in Berlin, Germany, one of the best-preserved Renaissance military structures of Europe.

Julius Tower (Juliusturm) is Spandau’s most famous sight. Originally built as a keep or watchtower, it was also used as a residence tower. Its castellated top was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1838 and is an example of Romantic architecture. After the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71, part of the war reparations paid by France, 120 million marks in gold coin, was stored at Julius tower until its restitution to France in 1919. The word Juliusturm has since been used in Germany for governmental budget surpluses.

The Bierpinsel is a building in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Rosary Basilica (Rosenkranzkirche) is an 1899 Catholic parish church which survived the Second World War undamaged.

Berlin Botanical Garden (Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem) was constructed between 1897 and 1910, under the guidance of architect Adolf Engler, in order to present exotic plants returned from German colonies.

The best-known part of the garden is the Great Pavilion (Großes Tropenhaus). The temperature inside is maintained at 30 °C and air humidity is kept high for tropical planto.

Eagle Head is from a four-metre-high sculpture by Sagebiel and Walter Lemckeis that stood at Tempelhof Airport. Dating from 1923, Tempelhof was one of the earliest commercial airports in the world but was closed in 2008. Nearby is the Berlin Airlift Monument, site of the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49.

Berlin Airlift Monument in Berlin-Tempelhof displays the names of the 39 British and 31 American airmen who lost their lives during the operation.

Swimming pool in the Spree.

By Jonathan Borofsky.

The Soviet War Memorial is a vast war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin’s Treptower Park.

Marzahn Windmill (Bockwindmühle Marzahn) is a post mill, where the whole body of the mill is mounted on a single vertical post to bring the sails into the wind.

The Reichstag is a historic edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Imperial Diet of the German Empire.

The Reichstag dome is a glass dome, constructed on top of the rebuilt Reichstag building in Berlin.