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Hard Wax is a record shop located in the Kreuzberg borough of Berlin, Germany. It was founded in December 1989 by Mark Ernestus at the ground floor of a Reichenberger Straße’s building. It is specialized in techno music, reggae, dub and dubstep. Hard Wax also serves as a distributor for several Berlin-based record labels linked to the Basic Channel aesthetic. Some members (or former members) of its staff are prominent DJs like DJ Hell, Gernot Bronsert of Modeselektor, Marcel Dettmann, DJ Rok, Gabriele „Mo“ Loschelder or Electric Indigo (Susanne Kirchmayr) who was in charge of sales from 1993 to 1996. The shop sets place a mail order system through its website (which represented 50% of the sales in 2009). In 1996 Hard Wax moved to the third floor of an old factory in Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44a sharing its premises with the Basic Channel record label and the Dubplates and Mastering studio. It’s one of the oldest record stores in electronic music in Berlin. Playing the role of an important hub for the techno community in the world, the shop helped extensively the development of this burgeoning scene in the 90s. Furthermore, as with Tresor club in Berlin, it shares a privileged relationship with the musicians of Detroit techno in the so-called "Berlin-Detroit axis".

The FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum is a local history museum focusing on the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. It contains a historical archive related to both parts of the district, permanent exhibits on urban development and social and immigration history, temporary exhibits on the district's past and present, and a historic printing press. The museum is part of the Culture and History Department within the district administration of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, and is located at Adalbertstrasse 95a in Kreuzberg.

Kottbusser Tor (German pronunciation: [ˌkɔtbʊsɐ ˈtoːɐ̯] (listen)) is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on lines U1, U3, and U8. Many Berliners use the affectionate term Kotti (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔti] (listen); see Berlin dialect). It is located in central Kreuzberg. The area has a bad reputation for the relatively high, mainly drug-related crime rate, instances of which have recently become quite rare in most other parts of the district. The original Kottbusser Tor was a southern city gate of Berlin; the road through the gate led via the Neukölln suburb to the town of Cottbus. Trivia - K and missing h (Cotbusser Thor) rely to a language reform at begin of 20th century. See e.g. Stralauer T(h)or, or Cölln and Neukölln.

Georg-von-Rauch-Haus (named after Georg von Rauch) is a Berlin squat established in 1971. The building was formerly a residence for nuns. It was one of the first squats in West Berlin and an important center for the city's left-wing/countercultural milieu in the early 1970s. It inspired Ton Steine Scherben's "Rauch-Haus-Song".

Görlitzer Bahnhof is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the viaduct of lines U1 and U3. It is located in Kreuzberg, in an area that offers a wide range of nightlife but is also notorious for its riots on 1 May 1987.

A bust of Wilhelm Leuschner is installed along Leuschnerdamm in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

Indischer Brunnen is a fountain at Luisenstädtischer Kanal in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

A 1959 bust of Carl Legien by Karl Trumpf is installed along Legiendamm in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

Drachenbrunnen is a fountain at Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.

The Luisenstadt Canal, or Luisenstädtischer Kanal, is a 2.3-kilometre-long (1.4 mi) former canal in Berlin, Germany. It is named after the Luisenstadt district and ran through today's districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, linking the Landwehr Canal with the Spree River, and serving a central canal basin known as the Engelbecken or Angel's Pool. The canal is named after Queen Louise, the wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm III.The canal was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné based on earlier plans by Johann Carl Ludwig Schmid and was built between 1848 and 1852. Besides its water transport and land drainage roles, it was also conceived as a design element in the development of the surrounding area, and was designed as a decorative strip, flanked by quays lined with neoclassical buildings.The canal never achieved significant boat traffic, and due to low flow levels its water became stagnant. Between 1926 and 1932, the canal was partially filled in and transformed by the landscape gardener Erwin Barth into a sunken garden, with ground level at about the old water level. The Engelbecken was retained as an ornamental pool with the addition of fountains.During and immediately after the Second World War, parts of the gardens were badly damaged, and sections of the sunken gardens in-filled with rubble. In 1961 the Berlin Wall was constructed along the northern part of the route of the former canal. Since 1991, many of the destroyed gardens have been reconstructed, and restored to the design of 1928.

The church St. Thomas (German: Thomaskirche) is a Protestant church in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin. Friedrich Adler designed and built the church between 1865 and 1869. Prior to the construction of the Berliner Dom, it was the largest church in Berlin, and the congregation was one of the largest in Western Christendom.It is located directly between the Luisenstädtischer Kanal and Mariannenplatz, once a central location.

Oranienplatz is a square in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.From 2012 until 2014 it was the site of the OPlatz (Oranienplatz) Movement pro-immigration protest encampment.