But one of the city's most fascinating monuments is well off the tourist trail, in the middle of Treptower Park, which runs along the Spree River in the former East Berlin.
One of Europe's most important and fascinating Neolithic monuments, the passage graves at Newgrange, older than the Pyramids, is around half an hour away by car.
Decades later that condemnation is largely a memory (as are some of those forests) and it is possible to see "Heaven's Gate" for what it is: a film with greatness in it but also longueurs, a fascinating artifact and a monument to Mr. Cimino's towering ambitions, as much for himself as for his art.
Re "Mother Culture, or Only a Sister?" (March 15): The Olmecs, who appear to have had widespread influence on other societies in Mesoamerica and were known for their stone head monuments, are fascinating.
A key attraction in Belgium, besides historical monuments and fascinating museums, is the rich cuisine and mouth-watering selections of fine chocolates.
Drawing from a broad archive of models, exhibitions, catalogues, and writings from architects, explorers, archaeologists, curators, novelists, and artists, Plaster Monuments tells the fascinating story of a premodernist aesthetic and presents a new way of thinking about history's artifacts.
The story of the "monuments men" is fascinating and truly deserving of the attention it will garner through this film.
The first, an excellent avocational group, will offer a heartily affirmative performance of Handel's monument, in Mozart's fascinating arrangement; the second, a smaller, highly professional chorus, will likely give a leaner and more elegant rendition of the standard version.
All in all, a surprising and fascinating exhibit about a modern-day "Monuments Men" rescue, worth visiting.
