Spot a Brandenburg Gate quadriga close-up

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 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 U-Bahn sign

Find a blue U-Bahn sign at any Munich Metro entrance. Photograph the sign.

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.

Spot the Brandenburg Gate

Find the Brandenburg Gate at the western edge of Unter den Linden. Photograph the six columns with the Quadriga chariot on top.

Spot the Fernsehturm

Find the Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm) at Alexanderplatz, the silver ball on a spike that is visible from almost anywhere in the city. Photograph it.

Spot the German flag

Find a German flag (horizontal black-red-gold) flying on a building, balcony or government facility. Photograph it.

Spot the Reichstag dome

Find the glass Reichstag dome by Norman Foster on top of the parliament building. Photograph it from the lawn or one of the surrounding bridges.

Spot the Victory Column

Find the gold-winged Siegessäule (Victory Column) in Tiergarten. Photograph it from the Straße des 17. Juni or a Tiergarten path.