Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Jeweled Skeletons of the Fürstenfeld Abbey
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
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Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.
Dachau, Germany
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Roggenburg, Germany
Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!
Reutlingen, Germany
The narrowest street in the world is in danger of closing up entirely.
Tübingen, Germany
One of the world's oldest fossil exhibits is on display in a beautiful antique "naturalienkabinett."
Tübingen, Germany
The Tübingen University anatomical collection hosts an example of an extremely rare medical phenomenon.
Tübingen, Germany
The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."
Lichtenstein, Germany
A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.
Bad Wildbad, Germany
A canopy trail with sweeping views and a giant tunnel slide.
Sachsenheim, Germany
A tiny, intricate model railway system.
Bretten, Germany
One of the most well-known city festivals in the world.
Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany
Inside the Herxheim museum can be seen the horrifying remains of what were probably the victims of acts of prehistoric mass cannibalism
Sasbachwalden, Germany
You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.
Idar-Oberstein, Germany
A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.
Völklingen, Germany
A former ironworks that was the first UNESCO industrial site.
Tholey, Germany
Germany’s oldest monastery has origins dating back to the 7th century.
Bingen, Germany
The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.
Eltville am Rhein, Germany
Kloster Eberbach is one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval Cistercian monasteries, founded in 1136 and renowned for its austere Romanesque architecture and historic wine cellars.
Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
This marvelous array is one of the largest collections of mechanical instruments in Europe.
Oberwesel, Germany
Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.
Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.
Andernach, Germany
The highest cold-water geyser in the world.
Lahnstein, Germany
Centuries of warfare, tragedy, executions, and poetry come together in this 13th-century fortress.
Mörsdorf, Germany
Germany's longest suspension rope bridge.