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A private museum in a former grain warehouse on the Spree in Friedrichshain, next to the East Side Gallery, whose roof once served as a Cold War border watchtower. Opened in 2016, its thirteen rooms trace the Berlin Wall's history from 1961 to 1990 through eyewitness testimony and artefacts, including items from the 1989 fall of the Wall.

The Museum of European Cultures in Dahlem explores everyday life, customs and cultural contact across Europe from the 18th century to the present. Formed in 1999 from the merger of Berlin's Museum of Ethnography and Museum for Folklore, it occupies the oldest building of the Dahlem Museums, designed by Bruno Paul.

Glienicke Bridge is a steel truss bridge across the Havel River, linking Berlin's Wannsee district with Potsdam. The current structure, the fourth on the site, was completed in 1907. During the Cold War it marked the border between West Berlin and East Germany and was used several times to exchange captured spies, earning it the nickname Bridge of Spies.

Sanssouci is the Rococo summer palace Frederick the Great had built between 1745 and 1747 on a terraced vineyard hill in Potsdam, designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff. Containing just ten principal rooms, the single-storey villa was meant as a private retreat, and gives its name to the surrounding park of palaces and follies.

The New Palace is a large Baroque palace on the western edge of Sanssouci Park, built from 1763 to 1769 for Frederick the Great after the Seven Years' War. It holds grand banquet halls, galleries of 18th-century art and a Baroque palace theatre, and is considered the last great Prussian Baroque palace.

A Baroque palace on an island in the Dahme river in Köpenick, built from 1558 as a hunting lodge for Elector Joachim II Hector on the site of a 6th-century Slavic fort. Since 1963 it has housed the Kunstgewerbemuseum's permanent collection of Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo interior design and decorative arts from the 16th to 18th centuries.

The Dutch Quarter is a historic neighbourhood in central Potsdam, built from 1733 to 1740 by the Dutch architect Jan Bouman for King Frederick William I, who invited Dutch craftsmen to settle there. Its 134 gabled red-brick houses now hold shops, cafés and galleries along four tree-lined streets.

The Chinese House is a circular garden pavilion in Sanssouci Park, built from 1755 to 1764 for Frederick the Great by architect Johann Gottfried Büring. Gilded sandstone figures in Chinoiserie style surround its colonnade, and the pavilion originally served as a setting for summer meals and small social gatherings.

The Brandenburg Gate is a triumphal arch on Luisenplatz in Potsdam, built in 1770-71 by Carl von Gontard and Georg Christian Unger for Frederick II to mark his victories in the Seven Years' War. Its city-facing and country-facing sides were each designed in a different Corinthian style by the two architects.

Museum Barberini is an art museum in Potsdam, opened in 2017 inside a reconstruction of the 18th-century Palast Barberini on the Alter Markt. Centred on the collection of founder Hasso Plattner, it presents three temporary exhibitions a year ranging from Old Masters to Impressionism and contemporary art.

Universum Bremen is a science museum housed in a distinctive shell-shaped metallic building. Visitors are encouraged to interact with most of its roughly 250 exhibits, which cover topics from the human body to space and technology. The museum receives on average 450,000 visitors a year.

Bürgerpark, together with the adjoining Stadtwald, covers more than 200 hectares, Bremen's second-largest green space. Established in 1866, it has been financed almost entirely through private donations ever since and is considered one of Germany's most complete surviving examples of 19th-century landscape gardening.

Bremen Cathedral, dedicated to St. Peter, stands on the market square on a site used for worship since the 8th century, with the present Gothic church largely built from the 13th century onward. Its twin west towers were rebuilt in the 1890s, and the crypts, cloister and a tower climb can be visited separately from the nave.

This bronze statue beside Bremen Town Hall depicts the donkey, dog, cat and rooster of the Grimm fairy tale Town Musicians of Bremen, standing stacked on each other's backs. Made by sculptor Gerhard Marcks and unveiled in 1953, it is one of the city's most photographed landmarks, and visitors often rub the donkey's legs for luck.

Bremen Town Hall stands on the market square, built between 1405 and 1410 in Gothic style and given a Weser Renaissance facade in the early 17th century. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004 together with the neighbouring Roland statue, it still houses the city senate, and its state rooms can be seen on a guided tour.

The Bremen Roland is a 5.5-metre stone statue of the knight Roland, erected in 1404 on the market square as a symbol of the city's trading rights and civic freedom. One of the oldest and largest Roland statues in Germany, it has stood beside the town hall ever since and was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004.

The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum close to Bremen's old town, on the city's so-called Culture Mile. It opened in 1849, was enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister, and has been expanded several times since, most recently in 2011. The building has been a protected heritage site since 1977.

Böttcherstraße is a roughly 100-metre pedestrian street in Bremen's old town, rebuilt between 1922 and 1931 at the initiative of coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius, with artist Bernhard Hoetger overseeing its design. Its brick buildings, a notable example of Brick Expressionism, have housed shops, workshops and two museums since 1931.

The Schnoor is Bremen's oldest quarter, a maze of narrow lanes lined with small 15th- to 18th-century fishermen's and craftsmen's houses that survived wartime bombing largely intact. Restored from the 1950s onward, its cottages now hold cafes, galleries and craft shops, and the district is protected as a historic monument.

Autostadt is a Volkswagen-run visitor park next to the company's Wolfsburg plant, opened in May 2000. Pavilions for Volkswagen Group brands surround two cylindrical glass towers used to store new cars, alongside the ZeitHaus automobile museum and a customer centre where buyers collect their vehicles.