'Stand By Me' Tree - the places I have been

At the heart of Berlin’s Tiergarten Park, an anonymous person has carved the lyrics to one of the greatest love songs of all time: Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me.”

The carving is neat and deliberate. Clearly this was no act of youthful graffiti but rather a meaningful statement of purpose. Whether it was a declaration of love for a person or just for the song itself, the “Stand By Me” Tree has become a touching unsanctioned monument in Tiergarten Park. The bark has long since healed, and Ben E. King’s timeless lyrics will remain as long as the tree stands.

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2017

3.26km

Marx and Engels Forum

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2009

2.26km

Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station

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2018

1.22km

Museum of Rescued Letters

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2017

1.53km

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2014

1.83km

Berlin Story Bunker

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2016

0.58km

Where the Conspirators That Tried to Kill Hitler Met Their Deaths

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2013

1.39km

Mengenlehreuhr

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2018

0.96km

Berlin’s Massive Carillon

One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within the popular Tiergarten park.

2012

5.99km

The Bierpinsel

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2020

3.91km

‘The West’ is, in fact, the world’s biggest gated community

2013

3.33km

Berlin – a fascinating walking tour with Tim Richards

1968

3.27km

Schering Headquarters

1.25km

Parish Hall 12 Apostles

2016

1.51km

Hansa Studios

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2022

1.6km

DDR Watch Tower

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2019

4.41km

Humboldthain Flak Tower

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2.3km

Urbirun Berlin – Berlin Wall Tour

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3.92km

Old City Wall of Berlin

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2009

1.63km

Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten

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2011

1.55km

The Frame Collector’s Museum

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5.66km

Colonial Traces – The African Quarter in Berlin-Wedding

3.44km

Visiting the Berlin Wall: a variety of experiences

2013

5.03km

Das Schicksal Der (Fate of) Bravenleavanne

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2010

3.89km

Zucker-Museum

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3.2km

Forgotten GDR History | Berlin

2013

2.55km

Museum fur Naturkunde

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3.4km

Berlin

2012

3.25km

AquaDom at Radisson Blu Berlin

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2009

3.76km

Tempelhof Airport

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2020

3.22km

Moses Mendelssohn Memorial

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2013

2.6km

The Bebelplatz

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2018

3.04km

The Brass Bunnies of Berlin

The artwork honors the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

2015

3.22km

The DDR Museum

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2019

3.37km

Schöneberg Gasometer

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1967

7.64km

Catholic Church Maria Frieden

2017

1.51km

The Walls of the German Parliament Are Still Covered in Soviet Graffiti

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2018

3.17km

Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars

Discover Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars in Berlin, Germany: A towering monument to war, located on a beautifully peaceful hill.

2009

3.25km

Schwerbelastungskörper

Discover Schwerbelastungskörper in Berlin, Germany: Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

1958

1.17km

Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste)

2021

3.96km

Café Strauss

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2017

5.85km

Natur-Park Südgelände

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1999

2.98km

Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin

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2010

2.67km

Arthouse Tacheles

Discover Arthouse Tacheles in Berlin, Germany: An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

2017

3.38km

This Workshop Was a Sanctuary for Blind Jews During WWII

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2018

1.44km

The ‘Hand with Watch’ Sculpture

Discover The 'Hand with Watch' Sculpture in Berlin, Germany: Known simply as "The Hand," this famous public sculpture in Berlin was featured in a Depeche Mode music video.

2016

2.37km

Deutsches Currywurst Museum

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2013

3.39km

Berlin’s Monster Kabinett

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2015

3.22km

The DDR Museum

Discover The DDR Museum in Berlin, Germany: A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

1970

3.37km

Dankeskirche

3.38km

House of the Family (today: Family Center)

1955

5.79km

Tempelhof City Hall (Extension)

6.46km

Residential Complex

2021

3.75km

Silent Green Kulturquartier

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2013

1.14km

Berlin – out to Potsdam, the Olympic Stadium and much more. Travelbook

2021

1.33km

Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism

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2014

4.65km

Georg-von-Rauch-Haus

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1962

2.28km

Department of architecture, Technische Universität Berlin

2.72km

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2020

3.52km

‘The Dance of Death’ at Marienkirche

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2019

3.21km

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2021

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Feuermelder

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2021

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Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism

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2012

5.99km

The Bierpinsel

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2016

1.53km

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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2009

2.97km

Tajikistan Tearoom

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2016

3.1km

Freedom Bell

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3.2km

Centropa Jewish Berlin Tour

2017

3.4km

Through a Humble Alley Lies a Hot Spot of Berlin Street Art

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3.65km

Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (today: Beuth Hochschule für Technik)

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CITY SIGNS: An Audiovisual Project on East Berlin’s Changed Street Names

2020

4.57km

Schönhauser Allee Cemetery

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2021

0.62km

German Resistance Memorial Center

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2016

3.03km

Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors)

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1.98km

Youth Center (today: Haus Zille)

2017

3.68km

Berlin’s David Hasselhoff Museum

An unmissable stop for any Hoff fan.

2019

3.77km

Prinzessinnengarten

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2017

2.56km

Knut the Polar Bear: Berlin’s Beloved Taxidermy Bear

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1966

8.62km

Institute for Hygene and Microbiology (today: Institute for Hygene and Environmental Medicine), Freie Universität Berlin

2021

3.31km

Classic Remise

Discover Classic Remise in Berlin, Germany: An old tram depot transformed into a vintage car paradise.

1.92km

Parking Garage and Apartment Complex Kirchbachstraße 1 & 2

2012

3.39km

Design Panoptikum

Discover Design Panoptikum in Berlin, Germany: A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

2.03km

IRI THESys Walkshop on Urban Infrastructure

1972

1.86km

Embassy of Czechoslovakia, East Berlin (today: Embassy of the Czech Republic)

2015

4.89km

Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg

Discover Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin, Germany: This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

1957

4.41km

Rotaprint Administration Building

2017

2.77km

Berlin’s Museum of Unheard of Things

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2020

3.12km

Wunderkammer Olbricht at me Collectors Room

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2015

4.5km

Museum der Dinge

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2019

0.6km

Berlin Victory Column

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2012

3.18km

Hall of Mirrors in Clärchens Ballhaus

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3.12km

Residential Complex Spitteleck

3.29km

St. Norbert

2021

1.65km

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

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2013

2km

Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum

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2014

2.23km

Tieranatomisches Theater

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2015

1.64km

Führerbunker Parking Lot

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2019

2.5km

Stadtbahn Viaduct World War II Damage

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3.22km

St. Agnes (today: König Galerie)

4.34km

Berlin Wall

2016

2.01km

Liquidrom in Berlin, Germany

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2020

4.85km

Judengang

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2016

4.58km

Subterranean Berlin

Discover Berliner Unterwelten (Subterranean Berlin) in Berlin, Germany: A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

2016

3.12km

A Historic Prussian Crypt Lies Under the Berlin Cathedral

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1.11km

Bürohaus An der Urania (today: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung)

2018

2.44km

The Obscene Artwork on a Berlin Newspaper Building

The artwork pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor.

2012

2.92km

Pergamon Museum

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2012

5.84km

The Return of the Cows

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2.09km

Apartment Complex Uhlandstraße

2017

1.77km

The Man Who Almost Killed Hitler

If Georg Elser's plan had worked, the Nazi dictator would have died in 1939.

2016

0.58km

Where the Conspirators That Tried to Kill Hitler Met Their Deaths

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1.51km