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Haus Muche/Schlemmer
The Haus Muche/Schlemmer makes it apparent that the room proportions used, and some of the design experiments, such as low balcony rails, dont really cut it in the modern world. At the same time, other features are startlingly innovative. The partially black bedroom here is intrigu
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Todtnauer Wasserfall
Heading south on the Freiburg–Feldberg road, you’ll glimpse the roaring Todtnauer Wasserfall. While the 97m falls are not as high as those in Triberg, they’re every bit as spectacular – tumbling down sheer rock faces and illuminating the velvety hills with their brilliance. Hike th
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Marktplatz
Coburg’s epicentre is the magnificent Markt, a beautifully renovated square radiating a colourful, aristocratic charm. The fabulous Renaissance facades and ornate oriels of the Stadthaus (town house) and the Rathaus vie for attention, while a greening bronze of Prince Albert , look
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Lorenzkirche
Dark and atmospheric, the Lorenzkirche has dramatically downlit pillars, taupe stone columns, sooty ceilings and many artistic highlights. Check out the 15th-century tabernacle in the left aisle – the delicate carved strands wind up to the vaulted ceiling. Remarkable also are the s
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Neuer Marstall
The 1901 neo-baroque Neuer Marstall by Ernst von Ihne once sheltered royal horses and carriages. In 1918, revolutionaries hatched plans to topple the Prussian monarchy here; a GDR-era bronze relief on the (north) facade facing Schlossplatz shows Karl Liebknecht proclaiming a German
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Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
Hamburgs history museum has lots of kid-friendly features: its chock-full of intricate ship models, has a large model train set (which runs on the hour), and even the actual bridge of the steamship Werner, which you can clamber over. As it chronicles the city’s evolution, it reveal
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Münchhausen Museum
Bodenwerder’s principal attraction struggles a little with the difficult task of conveying the chaos and fun associated with the ‘liar baron’ – a man who liked to regale dinner guests with his Crimean adventures, claiming he had, for example, tied his horse to a church steeple duri
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Dom St Marien
This late-Gothic hall church sports intricate net-vaulting and teems with art treasures, most famously the 1479 altar painting by Michael Wohlgemuth (a teacher of Albrecht Dürer) and an emotionally charged pietà (1502) by famous local sculptor Peter Breuer. There are also some ultr
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Einstein Fountain & Monument
A nod to Ulm’s most famous son, Jürgen Goertz’s fiendishly funny bronze fountain shows a wild-haired, tongue-poking-out Albert Einstein, who was born in Ulm but left when he was one year old. Standing in front of the 16th-century Zeughaus , the rocket-snail creation is a satirical
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Duravit Design Centre
If giant cuckoo clocks and Black Forest gateau no longer thrill, how about a trip to the world’s largest loo? Drive a couple of minutes south of Gutach on the B33 to Hornberg and there, in all its lavatorial glory, stands the titanic toilet dreamed up by Philippe Starck. Even if yo
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Luthers Sterbehaus
Luther returned to Eisleben in January 1546 to help settle a legal dispute for the Count of Mansfeld, but he was already ill and died on 18 February, a day after finalising an agreement. This museum, expanded and updated in 2013, focuses on three themes: how the culture of death ha
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Stadt
A pharmacy since 1735 and still operating as one today, this is where Bertha Benz – business partner and wife of automobile inventor Karl Benz – refuelled on the first-ever long-distance drive in 1888. The pharmacy provided her with Ligroin, making it the worlds first filling stati
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Sorbisches Museum
The Sorb national museum has collections and displays on every aspect of the history and culture of this ethnic minority. The exhibit kicks off with a general overview before documenting aspects of everyday life, such as customs and festivities, religion, architecture, music and dr
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Odeonsplatz
Odeonsplatz marks the beginning of the Maxvorstadt, a 19th-century quarter built to link central Munich with Schwabing to the north. Leo von Klenze masterminded its overall design and several of the buildings, including the Leuchtenberg-Palais. There are several nice, if pricey caf
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St Maria zur Höhe
St Maria zur Höhe is a squat and architecturally less refined 13th-century hall church. Its sombreness is brightened by beautiful ceiling frescoes, an altar ascribed to the Westphalian painter known as the Master of Liesborn, and the Scheibenkreuz, a huge wooden cross on a circular
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Porzellansammlung
Housed in two gorgeously converted curving galleries, this extraordinary collection ranges from Chinese porcelain from the 17th and 18th centuries to that produced in Meissen, as the European art of making white gold was perfected under August the Strong. The fabulous Tiersaal (ani
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Archäologische Zone
Cologne used the construction of the U-Bahn line to also build this grand new museum, which is located under the Rathausplatz and fully ecompasses two major parts of the city history. At the deepest level is the Praetorium, which has relics of a Roman governor’s palace. One level u
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Madame Tussauds
No celebrity in town to snare your stare? Don’t fret: at this legendary wax museum the worlds biggest pop stars, Hollywood legends, sports heroes and historical icons stand still – very still – for you to snap their picture. Sure, it’s an expensive haven of kitsch and camp, but whe
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Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Flanking Chemnitz most beautiful square, the historic Theaterplatz, this lovely art museum stages large-scale temporary exhibits sometimes drawn from its own collection of paintings, sculpture, graphics, textiles and crafts. Special strengths include Romantic Age painters (Caspar D
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Kurfürstenzimmer
Upstairs and only accessible in the morning are the Kurfürstenzimmer (Electors Rooms) with some stunning Italian portraits and a passage lined with two dozen views of Italy, painted by local romantic artist Carl Rottmann. Also up here, and accessible all day, are François Cuvilliés
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