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PLAYMOBIL FunPark is an outdoor play park in Zirndorf, near Nuremberg, themed around the PLAYMOBIL toy figures. Children can climb a knight's castle, board a pirate ship moored in a lagoon, and cross rope bridges through play areas built to child scale.

The Memorium occupies the attic above Courtroom 600 in Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, where the International Military Tribunal tried senior Nazi leaders from 1945 to 1946. Opened in 2010, the exhibition uses original courtroom fittings, film and audio recordings to document the trials and their influence on international criminal law.

Albrecht Dürer lived and worked in this five-storey timber-framed house from 1509 until his death in 1528. Rebuilt after World War II bombing, it reopened as a museum in 1971 and now shows period rooms, a reconstructed printmaking workshop and rotating exhibitions of Dürer's drawings and prints.

Opened in 1899 as a royal Bavarian railway museum, the DB Museum in its present building dates from 1925 and is the oldest railway museum in Germany. Exhibits include part of the Bavarian royal train, the 1829 Adler-era coal wagon and the streamlined steam locomotive 05 001, alongside a large-scale model railway.

Founded in 1852 by baron Hans von und zu Aufseß, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum is Germany's largest museum of cultural history. Its roughly 25,000 displayed objects span prehistory to the present, including Dürer's Rhinoceros woodcut, the 1492 Behaim Globe and paintings by Rembrandt and Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Nuremberg Castle is a group of medieval fortifications on a sandstone ridge above the old town, built in stages from around 1000 to the 15th century. Visitors can see the Palas, the Romanesque double chapel, the Sinwell Tower and a 50-metre well, alongside a permanent exhibition on the Holy Roman Empire.

St. Sebaldus Church was built from 1225 and reached parish status in 1255, with a Gothic hall choir added between 1358 and 1379 and twin towers completed in the 15th century. It holds the shrine of St. Sebaldus, a bronze monument cast by Peter Vischer the Elder and his sons between 1508 and 1519.

The Schöner Brunnen is a 19-metre Gothic fountain on Nuremberg's main market square, built by stonemason Heinrich Beheim between 1385 and 1396. Its spire-shaped canopy carries 40 painted and gilded figures arranged in tiers, including prophets, electors and philosophers.

The Frauenkirche was built between 1352 and 1362 on Nuremberg's main market square, commissioned by Emperor Charles IV on the site of a destroyed synagogue. Its brick-Gothic west front carries the Männleinlaufen, a mechanical clock from 1509 that re-enacts the 1356 Golden Bull each day at noon.

St. Lorenz is a Gothic hall church in Nuremberg's old town, begun in 1250 and largely completed by 1477. Its west front holds a rose window nine metres across, and the choir contains Veit Stoss's carved Annunciation and Adam Kraft's sacrament house, a stone tabernacle over 18 metres tall.

The Documentation Center occupies the north wing of the unfinished Congress Hall on the former Nazi party rally grounds. It opened in 2001 and its exhibition covers the causes, course and consequences of National Socialism, including the Nuremberg rallies, the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and the postwar Nuremberg trials.

The Nazi Party rally grounds cover around 11 square kilometres southeast of Nuremberg's old town, built as the staging ground for six Nazi party rallies between 1933 and 1938. Surviving structures include the Zeppelin grandstand, the unfinished Congress Hall and the Große Straße parade road; the whole site is now an open memorial area.

Nuremberg Zoo opened in its present form in 1939 in the Reichswald forest southeast of the city, replacing an earlier zoo founded in 1912. Spread across 67 hectares, it keeps around 300 species, including polar bears, Asiatic lions and gorillas, with a dolphinarium hosting regular shows.