For sweeping city views at eye level with the Fernsehturm (TV Tower), head up to the rooftop Panorama Terrasse, the open-air lounge of the Park Inn Hotel, some 150m above Alexanderplatz. Grab a sunlounger and relax with a cold beer or a glass of bubbly.

If you're lucky, you might even get to look on as gutsy base-flyers prepare to leap off the edge of the building in a controlled fall using a special winch system usually used by stuntpeople.


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1. Fernsehturm

0.21 MILES

Germany's tallest structure, the TV Tower is a Berlin icon.

2. St Marienkirche

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This Gothic brick gem has welcomed worshippers since the early 14th century, making it one of Berlin’s oldest surviving churches. A 22m-long Dance of…

3. Neptunbrunnen

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This elaborate fountain was designed by Reinhold Begas in 1891 and depicts Neptune holding court over a quartet of buxom beauties symbolising the rivers…

4. Block der Frauen

0.36 MILES

A reddish sandstone memorial in a small park on Rosenstrasse called Block der Frauen by Jewish-German artist Inge Hunzinger (1915–2009) pays tribute to…

5. Rotes Rathaus

0.37 MILES

The Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall) is the seat of Berlin's governing mayor and a red-brick neo-Renaissance pile completed in 1869. Outside, note the…

6. Sealife Berlin

0.4 MILES

Smile-inducing seahorses, ethereal jellyfish, Ophira the octopus and a marine dinosaur skeleton that can be 'reanimated' are some of the crowd favourites…

7. Berlin Dungeon

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This is a 70-minute tour through a camped-up chamber of horrors that's brought to life by actors in nine shows with such spine-tingling names as 'Elevator…

8. Haus Schwarzenberg

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Haus Schwarzenberg is the last holdout in the heavily gentrified area around the Hackescher Markt. Run by a nonprofit organisation, it's an unpretentious…