History buffs looking for offbeat suggestions (Italy, Germany)

#18. Re: Found on Atlas Obscura website... I am intrigued by the idea of a Slaughterhouse Five tour in Dresden!

#16

According to rumours about the upcoming 2013/2014 timetable 2 trains/day from Ljubljana will terminate in Villa Opicina instead of Sezana.

http://www.drehscheibe-foren.de/foren/read.php?30,6581959

Let's see what happens! Unfortunately the infamous Trenitalia management might still torpedoe this plan. Italians were always very good at torpedoing!

http://youtu.be/Nt8rJPsDOAc

We'd love to find towns with quirky stories or the homes of little-known heroes

Not too far from Germany in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium the tiny town of Bouillon on the banks of the snaking Semois river is the hometown of not only one, but two little known heroes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouillon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bouillon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Degrelle

I was all over Germany and #10 is giving you the best advice with Tubingen/Bebenhausen. Make sure you go there on a day when the market is in town and go into the City Hall there and ask to the art on teh walls. It's magnificent.

Here are some places history buffs must see in Germany that aren't necessarily uber-popular.

The castle in Eisenach (MAGNIFICENT)
the church and Merchant's Bridge in Erfurt (walking in the church you can hear your own footsteps echo. chilling!)
the castle in Sababurg (this is supposedly where Sleeping Beauty takes place)
and the castle in Goslar. What an AMAZING thing to see. The whole town of Goslar was adorable.

Shoot me any questions you may have.

I also loved the town of Hannoversch-Munden.