Plan a trip to Germany

Places to see in Germany

12 of the 20 places VoyaKin maps here. Descriptions from Wikipedia and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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  Neuschwanstein CastleUNESCO

  Schloss Neuschwanstein

  Fort · Bavaria

  Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany, near the border with Austria.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wilfredor (CC0). Map

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  Cologne CathedralUNESCO

  Kölner Dom

  Religious · North Rhine-Westphalia

  Cologne Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and of the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Thomas Wolf (CC BY-SA 3.0 de). Map

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  Aachen CathedralUNESCO

  Aachener Dom

  Religious · North Rhine-Westphalia

  Aachen Cathedral is a Catholic church in Aachen, Germany, and the cathedral of the Diocese of Aachen.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  DessauUNESCO

  Town · Saxony-Anhalt

  Dessau is a district of the independent city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt. Until 1 July 2007, it was an independent city. The population of Dessau is 67,747.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Sven Scharr (CC BY 3.0). Map

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  Museum IslandUNESCO

  Museumsinsel

  Heritage site · Berlin

  The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites in Europe.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Thomas Wolf (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Speyer CathedralUNESCO

  Dom zu Speyer

  Religious · Rhineland-Palatinate

  Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae is a historical religious building in Speyer, Germany.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Carsten Steger (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Bad EmsUNESCO

  Heritage site · Rhineland-Palatinate

  Bad Ems is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well known as a spa on the river Lahn. Bad Ems was the seat of Bad Ems collective municipality, which has been merged into the Bad Ems-Nassau collective municipality.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Dirk Schmidt (Celsius auf Wikivoyage) (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

• WartburgUNESCO

  Fort · Thuringia

  The Wartburg is a castle originally built in the Middle Ages. At an elevation of 410 metres (1,350 ft) in the state of Thuringia, Germany, it is situated on a southwest-facing precipice and overlooks the town of Eisenach to the north. It was the home of St.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Berlin

  City · Berlin

  Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union (EU). The metropolis is also one of the states of Germany, being the third-smallest state in the country by area.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Thomas Wolf (CC BY-SA 3.0). Map

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  Munich

  München

  City · Bavaria

  Munich is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third most-populous city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Thomas Wolf (CC BY-SA 3.0 de). Map

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  Hamburg

  City · Hamburg

  Hamburg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and sixth-largest city in the European Union, with a population of over 1.9 million.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: kallerna (CC BY-SA 4.0). Map

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  Berlin Wall

  Berliner Mauer

  Fort

  The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961.

  Text: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photo: Wikimedia Commons: Berlin Wall Potsdamer Platz November 1975 looking east crop.jpg (CC BY-SA 2.0). Map