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Badenburg
The royal gardens take the form of a magnificently landscaped English-style park. They contain a number of follies, including the Badenburg sauna and bathing house.
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Altstadtmarkt
Braunschweig’s former marketplace is an appealing square with the step-gabled Renaissance Gewandhaus (built 1303; facade redesigned 1590) and the Gothic Altstadt Rathaus .
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Berlin Wall Segments
Visitors like to pose in front of these graffiti-festooned segments of the Berlin Wall set up along its original course outside the Potsdamer Platz train station entrance.
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Hexentanzplatz
Of the two rocky bluffs flanking the Bode Valley, Hexentanzplatz is the most developed and popular. Take the cable car to the top for spectacular views and crisp, fresh air.
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Hansa Studios & Meistersaal
David Bowie, Depeche Mode and U2 are among the megastars who have recorded albums in the acoustically supreme Meistersaal at Hansa Studios, Berlin’s answer to London’s Abbey Road.
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Worpsweder Bahnhof
This Art Nouveau former railway station designed by Heinrich Vogeler is pretty as a picture. Today, only the infrequent Moor Express from Bremen (www.evb-elbe-weser.de) stops here.
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Wendisches Museum
Cottbus (aka Chosébuz) is also the unofficial capital of the Sorbian Blota region. To learn about this Slavic groups history, language and culture, visit the Wendisches Museum .
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Museum Bautzen
This reinvigorated museum looks at the history of the town and region as well as local art in shiny new exhibition spaces with plenty of listening, video and interactive stations.
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Grosser Rathaussaal
Located in the Altes Rathaus , the Great Assembly Room has wonderful murals by local artist Ferdinand Wagner, showing scenes from Passaus history with a melodramatic flourish.
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Geosammlung
South of Kronenplatz in the technical university is the Geosammlung , Germanys largest collection of mineral samples. Some of the displays are also on the theme of fossils.
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Hildegard Forum
About 400m towards Bingen is the Hildegard Forum , run by Kreuzschwestern nuns in black-and-white habits, which houses Hildegard exhibits, a medieval herb garden and a restaurant .
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Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst
Situated on an island in the Weser River, across from the Schlachte promenade, this museum showcases German and international artists in changing, hot-off-the-press exhibitions.
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Reichekapelle
Only open in the afternoon. This chapel was reserved for court residents in the reign of the Wittelsbachs - the Bavarian rulers who lived in the Residenz from 1385 to 1918s.
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Nationalpark
On the harbourfront, youll find this small exhibition and the opportunity to take a walk into the Wattenmeer: dates and times are published on the website during the summer season.
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Nietzsche Archiv
Belgian architect, designer and painter, Henry van de Velde added some art-nouveau touches to this house, where the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche spent his final years in illness.
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Johannisbad
A 10-minute walk north of the Altstadt, the spectacular Johannisbad is a beautiful old art- nouveau swimming pool and sauna complex - worth a look even without taking a dip.
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Hofkirche
Completed in 1755, its crypt contains the heart of Augustus the Strong; his body is in Cracow. You can catch a free organ concert here every Wednesday and Saturday at 11.30am.
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Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus
Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1900–90) was a Bauhaus luminary whose foundation today promotes contemporary design in its many facets and forms in special exhibitions, including photography.
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Walpurgishalle
The wooden museum Walpurgishalle has exhibitions and paintings on matters heathen (German only), including the Opferstein, a stone once used in Germanic sacrificial rituals.
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Tower
A steady trudge through spruce forest and pastures brings you to this 19th-century lookout tower, where the 360-degree views stretch from the Swabian Alps to the snowcapped Alps.
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