Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Zoos
Wuppertal
Wuppertal Zoo is one of the few zoos you can reach by suspended monorail: the Zoo/Stadion station of the famous Wuppertal Schwebebahn is close by. The zoo itself climbs a hillside as a 24-hectare park with mature trees. Around 2,200 animal…
Zoos
Gelsenkirchen
ZOOM Erlebniswelt in Gelsenkirchen is a themed zoo that takes you around the world in a day. Across more than 30 hectares in the heart of Germany's Ruhr region, you walk through recreated landscapes of Alaska, Africa and Asia, with almost…
Churches & monasteries
Zwiefalten
From the outside, little Zwiefalten on the southern edge of the Swabian Jura looks almost sleepy, until you stand in front of the grey façade of its minster. Behind it opens one of the largest Baroque church interiors in Germany: paired ma…