#1 Ritter Sport Bunte Schokowelt
Located close to the Brandenburger Tor, you can find a whole store of Ritter Sport chocolate. You can shop your favorite chocolate bar, try their test chocolate or create your own chocolate. While you wait for your own creations of chocolate bar, you get a 10% voucher for the Ritter Sport Café upstairs. Time to try their melted Ritter Sport hot chocolate or a delicious chocolate fondue
#2 Reichstag
Visit the dome of Germanys government building. Admission is free, you just need to sign up for a date. The audio guide is also free and will explain you how politics work in Germany and a bit about German history and laws.
#3 Berliner Unterwelten
Experience WW2 bombing raids through the eyes of civilians. Berlin was the main target for bombing in WW2. Berliner Unterwelten offers different guided tours through bunkers, subways and rooms showing you vividly the German history.
#4 Holocaust Memorial
The Berlins holocaust memorial consists out of 2711 concrete blocks. The only difference of the blocks are the different heights. Next to the memorial is an information center where you can learn more about the Holocaust. Please respect the memorial and do not climb or pose on the blocks.
#5 Christmas Market
If you’re lucky enough to see Berlin in winter, you can’t miss a german Christmas market. You can find handcrafted goods, freshly baked waffles, mulled wine and all kind of food here. Besides the festive decorations a Christmas program keeps you entertained. You relax and let the Christmas spirit sink it.
#6 Lost place Teufelsberg
Another out of the box place is the lost place Teufelsberg. Teufelsberg (German for Devil’s Mountain) used to have the largest listening station of the NSA. Today, the buildings are abandoned and a magnet for street artists. The tickets are 7€ without at 15€ with a guide (as of November 2021)
#7 Gärten der Welt
You want to travel around the world in one day? No problem. You can find 10 themed gardens and 9 international garden galleries in “Gardens of the world”. Experience the diversity of Europe, celebrate the garden culture of Bali, Japan or China and find yourself in oriental garden counting all the 1.3 million mosaic tiles.
#8 Mall of Berlin
Sometimes you just want to shop. With the largest food court in Berlin, a XXL slide from the second to ground level and 270 shops this is your place to go. 1912 the biggest warehouse of Europe was located here. Because of the popularity the traffic got so bad, the traffic got regulated with a traffic light for the first time ever in Germany.
#9 Berlin Wall Memorial
If you want to see the wall that used to divide Germany into two you can start to explore the history of the wall on Bernauer Str. 111. It’s 1,4km long on the former border strip. After experiencing the remains of the Berlin Wall you can visit the exhibition center at the other side of the street.
#10 DDR Museum
The daily life of people living in GDR. DDR Museum advertise their exhibition with ‚Experience history with all your senses‘ and it’s true. It’s a unique way to travel back in time. The tickets are 9,80€ (as of November 2021) and totally worth the price as it’s the most visited museum in Berlin’s.
