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Best places to visit in Germany
Germany has 306 places on BucketList (100 landmarks, 78 natural sites, 58 museums). These are the 24 most popular. Rate the ones you have been to, and save the rest to your bucket list.
Top places in Germany
- BerlinCityFederated state, capital and largest city of Germany
- MunichCityCapital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany
- HamburgCityCity and state in the North of Germany
- FrankfurtCityMost populated city of Hesse, Germany
- DresdenCityCapital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany
- StuttgartCityCity on the Neckar river and capital of the federal state Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Neuschwanstein CastleLandmarkCastle in Bavaria, Germany, Europe
- Brandenburg GateLandmarkTriumphal arch in Berlin, Germany
- Cologne CathedralHistorical SiteRoman-Catholic cathedral in Cologne, Germany
- ReichstagPolitical SiteSeat of the German Bundestag and, before 1945, the eponymous parliament of the Weimar Republic
- DessauHistorical SiteCity in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; since 2007 district of Dessau-Roßlau
- Aachen CathedralHistorical SiteRoman-Catholic cathedral in Aachen, Germany
- Pergamon MuseumMuseumMuseum building in Berlin, part of the Museumsinsel, presents the Vorderasiatisches Museum, the Museum für Islamische Kunst and parts of the Antikensammlung
- Museum IslandHistorical SiteNorthern part of Spree Island in the Spree river in central Berlin
- WartburgLandmarkCastle in Eisenach, Germany
- ChiemseeNatural SiteFreshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany
- Speyer CathedralHistorical SiteCathedral in Speyer, Germany
- Sanssouci PalaceLandmarkPalace in Brandenburg, Germany
- Nymphenburg PalaceLandmarkBaroque palace in Munich, Bavaria, southern Germany
- Reichenau IslandHistorical SiteIsland in Germany
- Potsdamer PlatzLandmarkSquare in Berlin, Germany
- AlexanderplatzLandmarkSquare in Berlin, Germany
- Charlottenburg PalaceLandmarkBaroque palace in Berlin, Germany
- KönigsseeNatural SiteLake in Schönau am Königsee, Bavaria, Germany
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