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Hohenloher Freilandmuseum
One place you can be guaranteed of seeing a black-spotted pig is this open-air farming museum, a sure-fire hit with the kids with its traditional farmhouses, orchards and animals. It’s 6km northwest of Schwäbisch Hall and served by bus 7.
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Deutsches Film
Down an alleyway across from the Rathaus, the German Film & Photography Museum has an impressive collection of historic photographic and movie-making equipment. Check out the vintage film-dispensing vending machine by the entrance.
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Eschenheimer Turm
A local landmark, this 47m-high, early-15th-century tower was a city gate that formed part of Frankfurts medieval fortifications, and is one of the citys oldest surviving structures. The ground floor now houses a bar and restaurant.
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Altmarkt
The Rathaus (1419) on Altmarkt functioned as the meeting place of the Schmalkaldic League. The incongruous towers of the late-Gothic Stadtkirche St. Georg (1437–1509) overlook the square. Luther preached to the Schmalkaldic League here in 1537.
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Porsche Museum
Like a pearly white spaceship preparing for lift-off, the barrier-free Porsche Museum is every little boy’s dream. Groovy audio guides race you through the history of Porsche from its 1948 beginnings. Stop to glimpse the 911 GT1 that won Le Mans in 1998.
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Allerheiligen Wasserfälle
The 90m-high Allerheiligen Wasserfälle spill in silky threads over several cascades. From here, a short round trail leads over bridges and up steps through the wooded gorge to a ruined Gothic abbey – an evocative sight with its nave open to the sky.
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Albertplatz
Albertplatz has two striking fountains representing turbulent and still waters. Also found here are an evocative marble Schiller monument and the interactive Erich-Kästner-Museum, dedicated to the beloved childrens book author and outspoken Nazi critic.
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Reichenturm
The 1718 addition of the baroque cupola caused this 56m-high medieval structure to start tilting. Today it deviates 1.4m from the centre, making it one of the steepest leaning towers north of the Alps. Climb to the top for sweeping Altstadt views.
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Platanenallee
Steps lead down from Eberhardsbrücke bridge to Platanenallee, a leafy islet on the Neckar River canopied by sycamore trees, with views up to half-timbered houses in a fresco painter’s palette of pastels and turreted villas nestled on the hillsides.
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Marstall
Also in the main building of the palace, the Marstall- museum displays royal coaches and riding gear (including Ludwig IIs over-the-top sleigh) on ground level, and a collection of porcelain from the legendary Nymphenburger Manufaktur on the 1st floor.
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Kloster Bebenhausen
Founded in 1183 by Count Rudolph von Tübingen, the complex became a royal hunting retreat post-Reformation. A visit takes in the frescoed summer refectory , the Gothic abbey church and intricate star vaulting and half-timbered facades in the cloister .
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Käthe
This museum in a charming villa is devoted to German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), whose social and political awareness lent a tortured power to her lithographs, graphics, woodcuts, sculptures and drawings. Highlights include the antihunger lithography Brot! (Bread!, 1924) and
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Erbdrostenhof
A most exquisite example of architect Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695-1773) is the 1757 Erbdrostenhof, a lavish private mansion. He was a master of the Westphalian baroque, a more subdued, less exuberant expression of the style than in southern Germany.
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Haus Kandinsky/Klee
The Haus Kandinsky/Klee is most notable for the varying pastel shades in which Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee painted their walls (re-created today). Theres also biographical information about the two artists and special exhibitions about their work.
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Denghoog
Enter the 5000-year-old Denghoog, next to the town church, which measures 3m by 5m and is nearly 2m tall in parts. The outer walls consist of 12 stones weighing around 40 tonnes. How Stone Age builders moved these is a Stonehenge kind of mystery.
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Kunstmuseum Bonn
Beyond its dramatic foyer, the Kunstmuseum Bonn presents 20th-century works, especially by August Macke and other Rhenish expressionists, as well as such avant-gardists as Beuys, Baselitz and Kiefer. It has a vigorous schedule of special exhibitions.
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Domschatzmuseum
If that whets your appetite, the attached former bishops residence, the Domschatzmuseum brims with vestments, monstrances, tapestries and other riches. Still more religious treasures await at the nearby Diözesanmuseum , inside a medieval church.
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European Central Bank Headquarters
The European Central Bank (ECB) relocated in 2014 from Frankfurts Eurotower into these striking 180m-high headquarters on the site of the citys former wholesale market. A visitor centre is planned to open here in 2016; check the website for updates.
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Happy Rizzi House
Particularly eye-catching is the Happy Rizzi House , which is actually three colourful buildings decorated by American pop artist James Rizzi. Hearts are a recurring theme on the facade, while curved windows form integral parts of facial murals.
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Kroch
The 11-storey Kroch-Haus was Leipzigs first skyscraper and now houses part of the universitys art collection. Topped by a clock and two muscular bronze sentries who bash the bell at regular intervals, the motto (in Latin) reads Work conquers all.
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