Nightclubs

Berlin, Berlin

Berghain is the world's most legendary nightclub — a former power station in East Berlin's Friedrichshain neighborhood whose 18-meter high concrete turbine hall hosts the most uncompromising techno on earth in a space that operates for 60+ consecutive hours each weekend. Notoriously difficult to enter (the door policy is considered the world's most selective), Berghain has achieved near-mythological status in global club culture, inspired countless documentaries and academic papers, and received German landmark protection status. A Berghain experience is considered one of the defining events of contemporary youth culture.

Am Wriezener Bahnhof, 10243 Berlin

Berlin, Berlin

Tresor is one of the founding institutions of Berlin's techno culture — a club that opened in 1991 in a former department store vault on Potsdamer Platz just months after the Wall came down, becoming one of the original spaces where Berlin's extraordinary post-reunification club scene was born. Now operating from a former power plant in Mitte, Tresor remains one of the world's most important clubs for industrial techno, its legendary Globus room and original vault space continuing to draw pilgrims from across the global dance music world.

Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin

Berlin, Berlin

Watergate is Berlin's most beautiful nightclub — a 600-capacity Kreuzberg club built directly over the Spree River with a spectacular floor-to-ceiling window wall overlooking the water and the Oberbaum Bridge. The club's two floors, transparent water-level main room, and consistently brilliant booking of the world's finest techno and house DJs have made Watergate one of the most photographed and coveted club spaces in Europe, representing the refined, architecturally serious side of Berlin's globally dominant electronic music culture.

Falckensteinstraße 49, 10997 Berlin