Once the largest coal mine in Europe, closed in 1986 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a symbol of the Ruhr region's change from heavy industry to culture. The Bauhaus-style buildings, especially Shaft XII with its red winding tower, are masterpieces of industrial architecture.
The Ruhr Museum, reached by a long orange escalator, tells the region's story. There are guided tours of the coal-processing plant, and in winter an ice rink in the old coking plant.
One of the greatest Gothic cathedrals in the world, begun in 1248 and finished only in 1880.
The first German site on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
A storybook castle hidden in a wooded valley above the Moselle, owned by the same family for more than 850 years and never destroyed.
The stretch of the Rhine between Bingen and Koblenz is lined with steep vineyards, medieval castles on almost every hilltop, and pretty wine villages…
The largest Roman city gate north of the Alps, built around 170 AD from huge sandstone blocks without mortar, and darkened over the centuries, hence …
Bremen's main square is surrounded by gabled merchants' houses, the Gothic cathedral and the ornate Town Hall, whose Renaissance façade and great hal…
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