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Rheinallee
Lined with boat docks, hotels, cafes, restaurants and wine taverns, Boppards beautiful pedestrian promenade runs along the riverfront. There are grassy areas for picnicking and a children’s playground upriver from the car-ferry dock.
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Kulturhistorisches Museum Rostock
The citys cultural history museum has an interesting collection including Victorian furniture and a few sculptures by Ernst Barlach. Its housed in the Kloster Zum Heiligen Kreuz, a convent established in 1270 by Queen Margrethe of Denmark.
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Kreuzkirche
The 1792 Kreuzkirche was rebuilt after the war. Originally the Nikolaikirche, the church was renamed for a Kreuz (cross) found floating in the Elbe River by fishermen. The church is famous for its 400-strong boys’ choir, the Kreuzchor.
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Schaufenster Fischereihafen
Situated a few kilometres south of Bremerhaven’s train station, this ‘window to the fishing harbour’ is, true to its name, a fishing harbour. Today, one of the fish-packaging halls has been converted into fish restaurants, bars and small shops.
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Reuter
This museum, housed in a villa once owned by writer Fritz Reuter, hosts exhibits on the composer Richard Wagner’s life and times. Located at the foot of the Wartburg, the inspiration for Wagner’s Tannhäuser, its like stepping back in time.
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Universitätsmuseum für Kulturgeschichte
The Universitätsmuseum für Kulturgeschichte inside Landgraves Castle has five rooms with exhibits covering cultural history from prehistoric times through Christian artefacts, and decoration to (relatively) modern local Hesse furniture.
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Museum Heylshof
Museum Heylshof displays paintings from the 15th to the 19th centuries are works by Tintoretto, Rubens and Lenbach. The Venetian, Bohemian and German glass, Frankenthal porcelain and beer steins (in the basement) are also worth a look.
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Monopteros
At the top of a gentle hill in the Englischer Garten stands the heavily photographed Monopteros (1838), a small Greek temple whose ledges are often knee-to-knee with dangling legs belonging to people admiring the view of the Munich skyline.
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Herrngarten
Two blocks northeast of Luisenplatz, this English-style park is a favourite hangout of frisbee-throwing students from the adjacent campus of Darmstadt’s Technische Universität Darmstadt , renowned for its science and engineering faculties.
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Braasch
Some of the prettiest Kaufmannshöfe can be found off the very picturesque Rote Strasse, which is up from the harbour by the Rathaus. While here, you can buy rum in drinkable and edible forms at this lavish shop, which has a small musuem.
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Augusteum
Part of Oldenburg’s Museum of Art & Cultural History, the Augusteum showcases European paintings – with a strong focus on Italian and Dutch masters – from the 16th to the 18th century. The gallery also features changing exhibitions.
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Yenidze
The huge mosque-like Yenidze began life in 1909 as a cigarette factory with a chimney disguised as a minaret and a stained-glass dome. Today its home to offices, a ho-hum restaurant and Dresdens highest beer garden (beneath the dome).
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Siegfried’s Mechanisches Musikkabinett
Situated 50m to the left from the top of Drosselgasse, this fun museum has an often-surprising collection of 18th- and 19th-century mechanical musical instruments that play themselves as you’re shown around on the compulsory 45-minute tour.
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Kurhaus
Corinthian columns and a frieze of mythical griffins grace the belle époque facade of the Kurhaus, which towers above well-groomed gardens. An alley of chestnut trees, flanked by two rows of boutiques, links the Kurhaus with Kaiserallee.
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Hällisch
This well-curated museum traces Schwäbisch Hall’s history with its collection of shooting targets, Roman figurines, and rarities including an exquisite hand-painted wooden synagogue interior from 1738 and a 19th-century mouse guillotine.
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JenTower
Built in 1972, but deceptively modern in appearance, the 128m-tall cylindrical JenTower was intended to be a Zeiss research facility, but proved unsuitable. Theres a shopping mall at ground level and two open-air observation decks at the top.
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Bundeskunsthalle
Adjoining the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland is another striking space with a name thats a mouthful. It has special exhibitions of everything from serious art to images from space probes.
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Blaudruckerei Shop
An interesting Frisian craft is on show at the Blaudruckerei shop, owned by former teacher Georg Stark who 20 years ago revived the long-lost art and tradition of Blaudruckerei, a printing and dying process whose results vaguely resemble batik.
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Deichstrasse
Hamburg’s Great Fire of 1842 broke out in Deichstrasse, which features a few restored 18th-century homes, most now housing restaurants. You can get a feel for the old canal and merchants quarter here, thanks to their mostly historic appearance.
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Luthereiche
This oak tree marks the spot where, on 10 December 1520, Luther burned the papal bull (a treatise issued by then Pope Leo X ordering his excommunication) and a number of other books on church law; the tree itself was only planted around 1830.
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