Allied Checkpoint Bravo — Attraction in Berlin

It’s not easy to get to, at least it wasn’t for me. As a historian, I was glad to be able to see this. It was my first time entering Berlin by car, so I made a point to enter from the direction that brought me through this way, as people would have done during the Cold War. I arrived at around 8 p.m. and everything was closed, but I don’t know if anything is normally open during the day anyway. I doubt if many tourists would come to a place that’s so far from more interesting sights, like Berlin’s city center, so there probably aren’t any discussions about making this a museum or memorial with employees to talk to visitors or anything like that. I was just happy to see a historical facility that’s...

i assumed this would be some kind of tourist trap, or at least have something of interest. The reviews suggest there was a museum, but when I visited in Oct 2024 nothing was open, except the customs office. God knows why there's still a customs office still there, but it's not open to the public.

Basically it's just a big empty car park that looks like it used to be a motorway services, but I guess was needed for traffic queueing at the border before the wall came down. I was walking along some of the old border - this has to be the least...

A historic place for all the wrong reasons. It represents the epicentre of the forced east/west divide of Germany. The current checkpoint building is not the real one, rather it's a new replacement representation of it. Some say it touristy, which is true, but ignore that and focus on the history. The actual route that the wall took is marked on the ground by cobble stones and plaques. A large part of the surviving wall is few minutes walk away westward and is worth visiting. Super interesting...