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Frankfurt Zoo
Dating from 1874, Frankfurts 13-hectare zoo is home to 4500 animals and kid-friendly houses for primates, nocturnal creatures, birds and amphibians.
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Museum Idar
Minerals and crystals - including a model of Manhattan made of rock crystal - are on display at the Museum Idar-Oberstein , 50m off the Marktplatz.
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Leibnizhaus
Leibnizhaus, with its reconstructed Renaissance facade, was once the home of mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), .
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Hetjens Museum
A short detour off the Rheinuferpromenade takes you to the Hetjens Museum, known for its survey of 8000 years of ceramic art from around the world.
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Wipertikirche Church
The Wipertikirche church was used as a barn from 1812 until its restoration in the 1950s. The church is surrounded by a tranquil cemetery and grounds.
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Museum im Zwinger
A 16th-century tower with a collection of such late-medieval delights as torture implements, coats of armour and weapons used during the Peasant Wars.
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Mittelalterliche Lochgefängnisse
This 12-cell death row and torture chamber must be seen on a 30-minute guided tour (held every half-hour) and might easily put you off lunch.
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Rheinuferpromenade
Burgplatz marks the beginning of the Rheinuferpromenade, whose cafes and benches fill with people in fine weather, creating an almost Mediterranean flair.
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Aquarium
The only real attraction on the waterfront promenade. It has seals in an outside tank, where public feedings take place at 10am and 2.30pm Saturday to Thursday.
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Mittelmosel
A furnished baroque villa proud of having hosted Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for a few hours in 1792 is now home to Traben-Trarbachs local history museum.
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Museum für Architekturzeichnung
Housed in a spectacular pile of relief-decorated sandstone cubes designed by Sergei Tchoban. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has his studio next door.
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Eble Uhren–Park
The Guinness Book of Records –listed worlds largest cuckoo clock occupies an entire house but is mostly a gimmick to lure shoppers inside a large clock shop.
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Stadtgalerie
At the southeastern end of St Johanner Markt is the Stadtgalerie , which puts on temporary exhibitions of contemporary photography, video and performance art.
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Zentralbibliothek
This striking all-glass pyramid - 28m by 28m at its base and 36m high - is the citys main library, the 2004 Zentralbibliothek, designed by Gottfried Böhm.
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Thingstätte
Up atop the Heiligenberg is the Thingstätte, a Nazi-era amphitheatre. There are several ruins and countless other hiking options in the surrounding hills.
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Neue Galerie
The recently restored Neue Galerie showcases paintings and sculptures by German artists from 1750 to the present, as well as pieces from past exhibitions.
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Pfarrkirche Unsere Liebe Frau
At the eastern end if the Hauptmarkt stands this ornate Gothic church, also called the Frauenkirche. Its clock’s figures spring into action every day at noon.
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Leviathan Mural
This house-sized mural by Italian artist Blu depicts a creature composed of hundreds of writhing pink bodies. Note the lone white guy crouched on its finger.
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Kunsthalle der Hypo
Fünf Höfe, a fashionable shopping mall also houses the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, a modern gallery space renowned for quality cross-genre exhibits.
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Schwabentor
The 13th-century Schwabentor, on the Schwabenring, is a massive city gate with a mural of St George slaying the dragon and tram tracks running under its arches.
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