2 Best Sights in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, Germany

Covering more than an acre in the town center, the botanical gardens of Bad Schandau has assembled a rich collection of exotic plants and flowers from the world's cooler climes since its opening in 1902. The garden also specializes in species native only to Saxon Switzerland, as well as the region's protected plants, rare poisonous plants, and medicinal botanicals used in medieval times.

A lovely park with a number of attactions, the most dramatic being the Millennium Tower. This wacky building, which seems to list to one side, is the tallest wooden structure in Germany and offers five floors of interactive exhibitions tracing the world's most important innovations and evolutions over the last 6000 years. The park also has themed gardens, a butterfly house, a summer toboggan run, and performance spaces.