Germany · Storytelling Tours

Love and War in Berlin: Self-Guided Story Puzzle Walk

1 Hour Round trip from Berlin Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Solve clues as you explore Berlin on a self-guided city game
  • 02 Visit historic landmarks linked to WWII and Berlin’s past
  • 03 See sites including Alexanderplatz, Museum Island, and Gendarmenmarkt
  • 04 Stop at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
  • 05 Learn about the last days of Nazi Germany through the story route
  • 06 Play at your own pace with no time limit
  • 07 Enjoy an experience that combines a walking tour, puzzle game, and treasure hunt

Step into Berlin’s past on a self-guided story puzzle walk that blends sightseeing, history, and interactive challenges. As you follow clues through the city, you’ll explore key locations connected to wartime Berlin and uncover stories behind some of its most significant landmarks.

Along the way, pass places such as Alexanderplatz, Museum Island, Bebelplatz, Gendarmenmarkt, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. With no guide required and no fixed pace, this experience lets you discover the city in a flexible and engaging way using the app.

The World Clock, also known as the Urania World Clock, is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 1 Hour
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access No
City Berlin
Languages English, German

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

The World Clock, also known as the Urania World Clock, is a large turret-style world clock located in the public square of Alexanderplatz in Mitte, Berlin. By reading the markings on its metal rotunda, the current time in 148 major cities from around the world can be determined.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Rathaus was built between 1861 and 1869 in the style of the Northern Italy High Renaissance by Hermann Friedrich Waesemann. It was modelled on the Old Town Hall of Thorn (today Toruń, Poland), while the architecture of the tower is reminiscent of the cathedral tower of Notre-Dame de Laon in France.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Neptune Fountain in Berlin was built in 1891 and was designed by Reinhold Begas. The Roman god Neptune is in the center.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Marx-Engels-Forum is a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as two of the most influential people in the socialist movement. The park was created by the authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Lustgarten (Pleasure Garden or Garden of Lust) is a park on Museum Island in central Berlin, near the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) of which it was originally a part. At various times in its history, the park has been used as a parade ground, a place for mass rallies and a public park.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Neue Wache is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin. Erected from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for the Royal Palace and a memorial to the Liberation Wars, it is considered as a major work of Prussian Neoclassical architecture.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Bebelplatz is known as the site of one of the infamous Nazi book burning ceremonies held in the evening of 10 May 1933 in many German university cities. The book burnings were initiated and hosted by the nationalist German Student Association, thus stealing a march on the National Socialist German Students' League.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The square got its name from the “Gens d'armes” cuirassier regiment, whose stables there were demolished by Friedrich II. Between the two churches, a new theatre, now known as the Konzerthaus Berlin, was built.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Yesterday an ambassador, today the minister-presidents of the 16 federal states, tomorrow a group of visitors from Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and a discussion event on current political events: this is everyday life in the state representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in Berlin. Over 500 events and encounters take place every year in the classicist town house on Jägerstraße in the middle of the government district. Here, Hamburg makes politics in the capital and participates in federal legislation through the Federal Council.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.In 1999, after lengthy debates, the German parliament decided to establish a central memorial site, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The competition to design it was won by the New York architect Peter Eisenman. The memorial was ceremonially opened in 2005.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Berlin 1 city · 1 Hour

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Full flexibility: start at any hour, take a break at any time and resume later
  • This tour is always available to book. We are open 24/7, every day of the week.
  • This is the safest tour you can book: private, no human contact, you will avoid crowds.
  • Play offline: you DON'T NEED an internet connection to play this city game

What's Not Included

A physical tour guide

Know before you go

  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable
  • - Unlock your city game in the Questo app using this link:
  • - Download the Questo app using this link (it’s free):
  • - Head to the starting point and enjoy your city game!

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Berlin, DE
Tour start
Berlin, DE
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 1 hour finishes where it began, in Berlin.

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