For more than 28 years, the Berlin Wall divided a city,a country and the world.
Along with the much longer heavily fortified frontier between East and West Germany, it came to symbolise the "Iron Curtain" that split the Democratic West from the Communist Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
The wall was finally torn down on November 9, 1989, but one piece has been conserved as a memorial to the victims of division. Situated in the closely-knit community of Bernauer Strasse - which was carved in two by the barrier - it is far from Berlin's eclectic nighlife and effortlesly cool neighbourhoods but well worth the detour.