KEY2 Pick
Museums • $$
Museum Island
UNESCO World Heritage complex of five museums on the Spree, including the Pergamon and the Neues Museum's Nefertiti bust.
Best for: Culture
Experiences in Berlin
Shows, flights, drives and private access — the reasons to leave the hotel.
KEY2 Pick
Landmark
Reichstag Dome
Norman Foster's glass dome atop the German parliament building, free with advance registration and sweeping city views.
Best for: Culture / Views
Observation Deck • $$
Berliner Fernsehturm
368-meter TV tower on Alexanderplatz, the tallest structure in Germany, with a rotating restaurant and observation deck.
Best for: Views / Family
Landmark
Brandenburg Gate
Berlin's defining 18th-century monument at the head of Unter den Linden, once the divide between East and West.
Best for: Culture / Photography
Landmark
East Side Gallery
The longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, painted with over a hundred murals along the Spree in Friedrichshain.
Best for: Culture / Photography
Boat Tour • $$
Spree River Boat Tour
An hour-long boat cruise along the Spree through Museum Island and the government quarter, a relaxed way to see central Berlin.
Best for: Group / Family
Museum
Topography of Terror
Free outdoor and indoor documentation center on the former Gestapo and SS headquarters site, essential Berlin history.
Best for: Culture
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