3 Best Sights in Oberwesel, The Rhineland

Popularly known as the "red church" because of its brightly colored exterior, Liebfrauenkirche has superb sculptures, tombstones, and paintings, and one of Germany's oldest high gothic shrine altars, from 1331.

A fortresslike tower on a hill, the Roman Catholic 'white church' of St. Martin has beautifully painted vaulting and a magnificent baroque altar.

Oberwesel's city museum—a former winery—offers a virtual tour of the town, as well as a multimedia "journey through time" showing the area from the Stone Age to the present day. It also houses a fine collection of old etchings and drawings of the Rhine Valley, including one by John Gardnor, an English clergyman and painter, who published a book of sketches upon his return to England and kicked off a wave of Romantic-era tourism in the late 18th century.