Spot a beer garden
Find a Biergarten with wooden benches, gravel underfoot and beer steins on the tables (Prater in Prenzlauer Berg, Tiergarten cafés). Photograph the rows of tables.
Spot a Berlin Bear
Find a painted Buddy Bear statue (the painted bears scattered around the city for the United Buddy Bears art project). Photograph one full body.
Spot a Berliner pastry
Find a Berliner (jam-filled doughnut, called Krapfen elsewhere) in a bakery window. Photograph the dusted-sugar top.
Spot a Brandenburg Gate quadriga close-up
Walk close enough to the Brandenburg Gate to photograph the Quadriga (the four-horse chariot statue) on top of the gate. Photograph the horses against the sky.
Spot a Checkpoint Charlie sign
Find the "You are leaving the American sector" sign at Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstraße (or in any museum display). Photograph the bilingual sign.
Spot a chunk of the Berlin Wall
Find a preserved segment of the Berlin Wall (East Side Gallery, Bernauer Straße Memorial, Topographie des Terrors, a souvenir-shop chip). Photograph the graffiti or concrete.
Spot a currywurst
Find a currywurst on a paper plate at any Imbiss stand (Curry 36, Konnopke's, any Späti corner). Photograph the curry-powder-dusted sausage with the fries.
Spot a döner kebab
Find a döner kebab being made on a spit or served in a pita at a kebab joint. Berlin claims to have invented the modern döner. Photograph it.
Spot a German beer stein
Find a beer stein or tall pilsner glass on a beer-garden table. Photograph the head of foam on top.
Spot a German bratwurst
Find a grilled bratwurst (a longer, finer sausage than currywurst) on a paper plate or in a roll. Photograph it with mustard on the side.
Spot a German pretzel
Find a Brezel (German soft pretzel) in a bakery window or on a café table. Photograph the salt-studded loop.
Spot a graffiti tag
Berlin is one of the world graffiti capitals. Find a striking tag, throw-up or mural (Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, RAW Gelände). Photograph the wall.
Spot a Hertha or Union mural
Find a Hertha BSC (Berlin's blue) or 1. FC Union Berlin (Köpenick red and white) sticker, mural or fan banner. Photograph the football tribalism.
Spot a Litfaßsäule
Find a Litfaßsäule, the cylindrical advertising column invented in Berlin in 1855, plastered with concert posters and flyers. Photograph the round column.
Spot a Späti corner
Find a Späti (Spätkauf), the late-night corner shop unique to Berlin. Photograph the shelves and beer fridge through the doorway.
Spot a Spree boat
Find a tour boat or barge on the Spree river running through central Berlin. Photograph it passing the Berliner Dom or the Reichstag.
Spot a Trabant car
Find a Trabant (the East German two-stroke car) parked or on a Trabi Safari tour. Photograph the plastic body in any colour.
Spot a yellow Berlin tram
Find a yellow BVG tram running through Mitte or the eastern districts (West Berlin lost most of its trams after WWII). Photograph one in motion.
Spot an East Side Gallery mural
Walk to the East Side Gallery and find a famous mural (the Brezhnev-Honecker kiss, the Trabant breaking through). Photograph one of the painted panels.
Spot Berlin Pilsner branding
Find a Berliner Pilsner glass, coaster or umbrella outside a Kneipe. Photograph the blue-and-white logo.
Spot Berlin street art
Different from a tag, find a piece of street art with a recognisable figure (a Blu mural, a Banksy-like stencil, a wheatpaste). Photograph it.
Spot Mauerpark karaoke or guitar
Walk into Mauerpark on a Sunday for the open-air karaoke or flea market, or any day for the buskers. Photograph the crowd or a guitar player.
Spot the Ampelmännchen
Find the green or red Ampelmännchen, the East Berlin pedestrian-light figure with the hat. Photograph one at a crossing or in a souvenir shop window.
Spot the Berliner Dom
Find the Berliner Dom on Museum Island with its blue-green copper dome. Photograph the cathedral from across the Lustgarten.