Fancy seeing what’s left of the Berlin Wall? That’s not all there is to see in Berlin. The city is best known for being Germany’s center of art, culture, politics and nightlife. Reminders of the city's turbulent 20th-century history include its Holocaust memorial and the Berlin Wall's remains. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 during the Cold War.