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Touring Berlin by bike lets you experience hidden places and urban nature at a pace you can’t access by car. Ride along Berlin’s quieter bike lanes and neighborhood streets with a guide who knows the city and its history. This private tour is perfect for those who have already seen the major sights and want to discover the lesser-known side of Berlin in a more personalized way.

Explore Berlin’s divided past with a local historian on a 3-hour, small-group tour of the city’s key communist-era sites. Start your tour at the Brandenburg Gate that divided East and West Berlin, and learn how families were separated as they tried to pass through the Friedrichstrasse train station. Visit a moving memorial to murdered East Berliners at the once-notorious ‘death strip.’ See an expansive Soviet housing complex and the headquarters of East Germany’s secret police, then finish your tour at Alexanderplatz, where fierce demonstrations helped end Communist rule.

Save time doing research on Berlin’s LGBTQ community, and get a shortcut to inspiring, moving, and unexpected stories with this private tour. Find out about what it was like to be a member of the LGBTQ community throughout the ages—including tales of a Prussian king who became a queer icon, notable figures from the hedonistic 1920s, the tragic events of World War II, and the techno influence of the 1990s.

Berlin may rightly be called the birthplace of today’s LGBTQ+ movements. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, pioneer of the modern Gay Rights Movement, distributed his essays on male-male love as early as 1862. He cleared the path for the world’s first gay magazine, Der Eigene (The Self-Owning), which came out of Berlin in 1897. No wonder that, by the 1920s, a liberal attitude made interwar Weimar Berlin an international magnet for creative individuals, including W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, who authored the novel, Goodbye to Berlin (on which the musical Cabaret is based). In such a dynamic atmosphere, the Institute for Sexual Science was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, who initiated the first campaign to abolish the legal persecution of homosexuals. This 3-house tour takes you to sites that illuminate Berlin’s many queer trailblazers, while you stroll through Schöneberg, discovering the world’s first gay ghetto.

This small-group dining experience in Berlin is the perfect combination of great food and a party atmosphere. The chef is a Brazilian Berliner who loves to dance, so you can expect a lively and entertaining evening. During your dinner, try delicious home-cooked recipes that you wouldn’t find in a restaurant—including contemporary German dishes with a Brazilian twist.

Discover the Berlin that inspired David Bowie’s heralded ‘Berlin Trilogy’ on this private, 3-hour tour. Travel back to the late 1970s: a time when the Cold War was on, the Berlin Wall was up and Bowie and Iggy Pop shared an apartment building in West Berlin. Together with a historian guide and your private group, you’ll see Hansa Studios, where ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ were recorded; 155 Hauptstrasse, where Bowie and Iggy lived; and some of the clubs and cafes he visited. You’ll also gain insight into how the Cold War and the so-called 'Berlin years' influenced Bowie creatively.

This private tour takes you from Berlin to Sachsenhausen—the site of a former concentration camp that dates back to 1936. Rather than traveling on crowded public transport, the trip includes private pickup and drop-off. Once at the site, tour the grounds with a guide to learn more about its poignant history and what life was like for those imprisoned at the camp during World War II.

Exploring Berlin on foot is the ideal way to get your bearings of the city and access places that bus tours can’t reach. With this tour, enjoy having a private guide—so you can ask as many questions as you want as you stroll between sites. Prominent landmarks featured along the route include Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag building, Checkpoint Charlie, and the Gendarmenmarkt.

Discover Berlin’s history by learning how to read and understand its buildings on a guided, three-hour Understand Berlin through architecture, not just dates and landmarks. Many tours use buildings as a backdrop, this tour treats them as historical evidence. As an architect, I (Natalie) focus on how urban planning, housing, materials, and spatial decisions reflect political ideas, social priorities, and moments of rupture in Berlin’s history. Rather than moving quickly between highlights, the tour slows down to ask why the city looks the way it does, and what those choices meant for the people who lived here. By focusing on the built environment, the tour offers a clearer, more grounded way of understanding the city. Through the built environment, the tour connects politics and history to everyday life.