Southern Germany region · the offbeat side of Hesse.
2 discoveries
A heritage rail line through the Odenwald forest that closed to trains in 1994 and reopened as a self-pedaled, solar-assisted rail-cart route through two tunnels and past four viaducts.
Europe's only museum devoted entirely to ivory carving, built into a Baroque castle in the Odenwald town that turned imported tusks into a 250-year craft tradition.
