Berlin's DDR museum attempts to introduce visitors to what for millions of East Germans was once everyday life, using the 'paraphernalia of shopping, fashion and family life'. Play 'Hausfrau' in an authentic DDR kitchen and living room, or experience first-hand what it was like to be spied on by the infamous and feared Stasi (State Security Agency).

Up until recently the pandas were the zoo's major attraction, drawing the most gawkers, that is until little polar bear Knut arrived on the scene. Since then there's been no looking back, Knut t-shirts, Knut coffee mugs, and probably somewhere, someone is selling Knut contraceptives. Bears have always had a special significance in Berlin, as the city mascot, so it's only natural that a little polar bear should be the upgraded, fresh for the 21st century, version.

Constructed to co-incide with the arrival of the 1936 Summer Olympics, the Olympia Stadiom is everything that Nazi architecture loved to be. Big, bold, and rather overpowering. Berlin's very own Hertha FC now call the stadium their home, when they're not kicking around you can visit the stadium to tour about for a small fee.

The view from above of Berlin's Jewish Museum is that of a large zig-zag line, which earned it the nickname "blitz", German word for thunderbolt. The museum has no access of any kind from the street. The entrance is located in an adjacent building, a museum of German history, through a staircase and tunnel embedded in a concrete tower that goes through all the floors of the German museum.

Built in 1969 as a a symbol of East German socialism, this 368m tower, the tallest structure in Germany, even has its own reolving cafe and restaurant. Warning, the food isn't exactly fantastic though. Due to fire safety regulations they can't actually have a working kitchen at the top of the tower, which means they need to cook all the food at the bottom  then whizz it up in a lift to the restaurant/cafe, where at the last minute it is whacked in a microwave oven then served on your plate. Oh well.