Twenty-four reasons
to walk around the back.

A poet once returned a king's money because she found the amount insulting.

Two women opened a medical practice at a time when women weren't supposed to be doctors.

And a cabaret singer decided the best place for a new kind of theater was in a basement.

Berlin has always had interesting women.

Not all of them were particularly easy to please.

Their stories are scattered across a city that has changed its appearance so many times that entire buildings, streets, and neighborhoods seem to belong to different worlds.

You'll find a scientist standing at ground level while three men occupy their pedestals. A painter who worked for decades in a studio hidden behind a busy shopping street. And a palace that still carries the name of a woman who never got to hear it called that.

Some stories involve famous names.

Marlene Dietrich. Käthe Kollwitz. Fanny Hensel. Rosa Luxemburg.

Others belong to women who ran laundries, built houses, hosted extraordinary conversations, practiced medicine, or opened spaces where other women could meet without having to explain themselves.

Berlin wasn't always kind to them.

There were rules about education, work, marriage, religion, and who was allowed to appear in public. Rules that changed over time, often because someone had become tired of following them.

But the city also remembers women through the strangest details.

A goose at the feet of a saint. A line of writing beneath your shoes. A missing name on a plaque. An Amazon fighting a panther outside a museum.

Not everything is quite what it first appears.

Twenty-four places invite you to take another look.

You don't need to understand every chapter of Berlin's enormous history to enjoy them.

Sometimes all it takes is a doorway, a courtyard, or a curious name on a street sign.

And the suspicion that the official version may have left someone out.

You don't need to know what happens before you go. You only need somewhere worth walking toward.

JUNO PORTALS is designed primarily for women traveling alone.

That doesn't mean every experience has to be solitary. It means the product starts from a simple reality: sometimes you're already here, the day is yours, and you'd like a reason to go somewhere you might otherwise have passed.

Read the access note for the portal you choose. Some places are further out than they look on the map, and some are private or working places you only see from outside.

THE NON-PEDESTALLED, A GIFT SENT BACK, REMEMBER ME IN JOY, A CROSS AFTER HER MOTHER, A QUESTION FOR LEIBNIZ and A LINE FROM SOMEONE ELSE depend on opening hours.

Prices and hours change. Check them on the day.

Curiosity gets you there. Your judgment always comes first.