The TV tower. It's big.
Tacheles.
The New Synagogue.
A former dance hall, which got bombed to fuck in WWII. A testament to the incompetence of the British and US air forces.
There's a group in Berlin now who are actively in the process of placing these plaques on the streets outside the former residences of Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
Building restored after WWII versus building absolutely not restored at all.
The Palace of Tears - this was, at one point, a checkpoint through which relatives from West Germany could visit those trapped in East Berlin. I think the most they were ever allowed were 24h visas.
The government buildings.
The Reichstag.
The Brandburg Gate.
Me posing with a friendly German dressed as a statue.
The Jewish Holocaust memorial. There's nothing engraved on the blocks, and the number of the blocks isn't signifcant either. It's just loads of randomly sized cuboids. The artist himself didn't design it with any particular meaning - he intended for people to interpret it individually.
This massive, ominous building was the former Nazi HQ. It spans a massive area, and was completely untouched during the air raids in WWII. Allied air force = fail.
The Berlin Wall, or what's left of it.
The fake Checkpoint Charlie - entrance to the former American sector.
These bricks run in a line all over the city, and mark the former site of the Berlin wall.
Some very fuzzy-looking sculpture in the middle of a shopping mall. It's made of car parts and represents, as the tour guide jokingly told us, what a pile-up would look like on the autobahn.
Book-burning square, and the Humboldt university (which I thought said, 'Humbert,' and found this very amusing, as I was reading Lolita at the time).
Now, I can't quite remember what this building is now, but during WWII it was a weaponry store or museum, and an assasination of Hitler failed here.
The WWII memorial.
This is a big-ass church - the Berlin cathedral, which is the largest protestant church in Germany and contains the remains of Prussian Kaisers (says google). It's probably the most elaborate protestant church you'll ever see as well.
The Death Strip.
Tachelis
