The Most Beautiful Places in Berlin
6 places · updated 13 October 2026
In short: By our ranking, the most beautiful places in Berlin are Fernsehturm Berlin, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Brandenburg Gate. The list covers 6 places. Last updated 13 October 2026.
Berlin is a city where history is built into the streetscape more openly than almost anywhere else. Capital of Prussia and then of a united Germany, it was scarred by war, divided by a wall for nearly three decades and rebuilt from both sides. As a result, its most powerful places are as often memorials and statements of memory as they are monuments of pride, and old landmarks carry new meanings acquired in the twentieth century.
The Brandenburg Gate, a Neoclassical gateway of the late eighteenth century crowned by a chariot and four horses, stood for decades just inside the border strip and became the emblem of reunification. A short walk away, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe fills a whole city block with concrete stelae of varying heights on undulating ground. Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum cuts a zigzag, zinc-clad building through its neighbourhood, with voids that run through the interior.
East Berlin left its own landmarks. The Fernsehturm on Alexanderplatz, the television tower completed in 1969, carries a steel sphere high above the city and is the tallest structure in Germany. In Treptower Park, the Soviet War Memorial leads through a ceremonial avenue to a colossal bronze soldier holding a rescued child. And the oldest monument in the city is far older than Berlin itself: the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, its glazed blue bricks set with lions, bulls and dragons, reconstructed inside the Pergamon Museum.
In this list
| # | Place | Type | UNESCO |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fernsehturm Berlin | Observation tower | |
| 2 | Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe | War memorial | |
| 3 | Brandenburg Gate | City gate | |
| 4 | Jewish Museum Berlin | Museum | |
| 5 | Soviet War Memorial | War memorial | |
| 6 | Ishtar Gate | City gate |
01 Fernsehturm Berlin
Berliner Fernsehturm
Germany · 0.7 km from Berlin52.521° N 13.409° E
Image by BernardoUPloud from Pixabay The Fernsehturm rises 368 metres from the centre of Berlin, the tallest structure in Germany and visible from almost every district of the city.
Did you know? The restaurant originally made one full turn an hour; since the renovation of 1997 it rotates twice as fast, once every 30 minutes.
02 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
Germany · 1.8 km from Berlin52.514° N 13.379° E
Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 9 hectares. Seen from the pavement it looks almost calm: low slabs at the edges, a grid of rows, nothing that announces itself. The memorial to the Jews murdered in Europe works only when you walk into it.
Did you know? The first design competition in 1994 drew 528 entries, and the Bundestag approved the final design by 314 votes to 209.
03 Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburger Tor
Germany · 1.7 km from Berlin52.516° N 13.378° E
Image by jensschoeffel from Pixabay The Brandenburg Gate is the one monument that sums up Berlin's history in a single stretch of pavement: a Prussian ceremonial gate that became a Nazi backdrop, then stood for nearly three decades in the no man's land of the Berlin Wall, and is now the city's most familiar symbol of reunification.
Did you know? The copper quadriga was hammered from sheets in moulds that were kept, so they could be used again for later recasting.
04 Jewish Museum Berlin
Jüdisches Museum Berlin
Germany · 2.4 km from Berlin52.502° N 13.395° E
Marek Śliwecki · CC BY-SA 4.0 From above, the Jewish Museum Berlin looks like a lightning bolt broken into zigzags; from the street it is a long, sharp-edged volume clad in zinc and slashed by narrow, irregular windows.
Did you know? The voids that cut through the Libeskind building rise about 20 metres and are left as bare, unheated concrete spaces.
05 Soviet War Memorial
Sowjetisches Ehrenmal
Germany · 6.4 km from Berlin52.486° N 13.472° E
Marek Śliwecki · CC BY-SA 4.0 The memorial in Treptower Park is the largest of the Soviet war memorials in Berlin, and it is also a cemetery. About 7,000 Red Army soldiers who died in the Battle of Berlin in the spring of 1945 are buried here, out of the roughly 80,000 Soviet dead of that battle.
Did you know? A long-repeated story that stone from Hitler's Reich Chancellery was used to build the memorial is not true.
06 Ishtar Gate
Ischtar-Tor
Germany · 0.4 km from Berlin52.521° N 13.396° E
LBM1948 · CC BY-SA 4.0 The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate of the inner city of Babylon, built around 569 BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II and dedicated to the goddess Ishtar. It is one of the most dazzling survivals of the ancient world.
Did you know? In Berlin, hundreds of crates of glazed fragments were desalinated and pieced together, with gaps filled by new bricks fired in a specially built kiln to match the colours.
How this list is ranked
Places are chosen for how they look, not for how famous they are: each one has its own description and a photograph credited to its author. The order is a single world ranking that weighs the beauty of the place in curated photography together with how widely it is documented — the number of language editions of its encyclopedia article and how often that article is read in a year. The list is rebuilt as places are added, so the order and the counts on this page are always current.
Questions people ask
- What are the most beautiful places in Berlin?
- On our list, Fernsehturm Berlin ranks first, followed by Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Brandenburg Gate.
- Why is the Ishtar Gate in Berlin?
- German archaeologists excavated Babylon in the early twentieth century, and fragments of the gate's glazed bricks were brought to Berlin, where the gate was reconstructed in the Pergamon Museum. The original was built under Nebuchadnezzar II in the sixth century BC.
- How tall is the Berlin TV Tower?
- The Fernsehturm is 368 metres tall including its antenna, making it the tallest structure in Germany. It was built by East Germany and completed in 1969.
- Who designed the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe?
- The memorial was designed by the American architect Peter Eisenman and opened in 2005. It consists of a field of 2,711 concrete stelae arranged in a grid on sloping ground.
- What kinds of places are there to see in Berlin?
- In our collection, the places in Berlin are most often city gates (2), monuments (2), war memorials (2) and viewpoints (1).
- How many places are on this list in Berlin?
- The list covers 6 places.