Karl-Marx-Allee is East Berlin's 2.3 km showpiece boulevard, and most visitors never see it. Here is the stretch worth walking, the facade details to look for, the 1953 uprising that started here, and what is actually open, from the reopened Kino International to Café Sibylle.

Treptower Park holds the largest Soviet monument in Germany and the grave of around 7,000 soldiers. Here is how to get there, what to see, and how to walk the memorial in the right order so its scale and story actually land.