This compact 18th-century cemetery is the place of perpetual slumber for a veritable roll call of famous Germans, including the philosophers GWF Hegel and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch and the writers Bertolt Brecht and Heinrich Mann. A map by the entrance shows grave locations. The burial chapel harbors an ethereal light installation by James Turrell that can be seen on hour-long guided tours. Check times and buy tickets online.
A wander around the cemetery brings you face to face with many artistic tombstones. Schinkel, in fact, designed his own. Dramatist Heiner Müller joined the illustrious group in 1995; fans still leave cigars for him. There's also a memorial to resistance fighters killed by the Nazis in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944.
