Bavaria's historic Franconia region, with its embarrassment of clock towers and castles, is worthy of a road trip. If you haven't much time ...

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There's an "Addicted to German Bread" Facebook page. German expats, who staunchly maintain it's the best in the world, routinely fill their suitcases ...

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Just outside Munich in Freising, you can walk along the ruins of monastery walls to the top of Beer Hill, where there's a real-deal ...

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The Spreewald, a UNESCO-listed nature preserve crisscrossed by 800 miles of streams and irrigation canals, encompasses the town of Lübben, where flat-bottom boats are an ...

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And now for something completely different. The former East German state on the Baltic coast has about 2,000 old manor houses, palaces, and castles ...

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The northern seat of the Roman Empire (referred to as the Rome of the North), a center of Christianity, and now a World Heritage site ...

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A picture-perfect German town. You've got your multicolored narrow houses with well-tended flower boxes, cobblestone streets, market squares dotted with fountains and sculpture, the ...

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The town refers to itself as the Music City. A magnet for composers (Schumann, Wagner, and Mendelssohn among them), it’s now home to the ...

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Germans love this town and can't seem to get enough of Sanssouci, the 18th-century summer palace of Prussian princes. The elegant highlight of the ...

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Begin with the iconic Brandenburg Gate, originally commissioned to represent peace and now a powerful symbol of unification. It's on Unter den Linden street ...

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