Checkpoint Charlie, the former border checkpoint between East and West Berlin, is set to get a major makeover after city authorities approved a redevelopment plan following years of debate.

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. Nothing is at it seems these days at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. At first glance, the famous checkpoint looks like an object out of rural Idaho ...

During the summer months in Berlin, thousands of tourists wearing flip-flops emerge from the U-Bahn stop near Checkpoint Charlie. Wide-eyed, they stroll down Friedrichstrasse before stumbling into ...

Many say a visit to the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing should not come without a visit to the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, or the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. Checkpoint Charlie was the most ...

Berlin, Germany, June 22, 1990: Dignitaries stand in front of Checkpoint Charlie as the historic guard post is removed by a crane. The site of many daring escapes, one infamous showdown between U ...

"In Germany, particularly in Berlin, things were happening -- unpleasant things like the famous confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie, a bigger event than we sometimes realize." In August ...

Visitors to Vail Village in the coming years will have the opportunity to watch a new tree take root and grow in one of the most iconic spots in town — Checkpoint Charlie. The large tree that formerly ...

A museum that features fake passports, a motorized glider, counterfeit Soviet Army uniforms, automobiles reinforced with sheet metal and concrete, an underwater bicycle motor, a homemade hot-air ba… ...

But it would take a real hard-core Checkpoint Charlie to chuckle at each one of Schneider’s sociopolitical observations about the new Berlin. Even then, one suspects that those in the know know ...