Würzburg (55 km) - capital of the district of Lower Frankonia

• Residenz: residence of the prince-bishops with famous baroque staircase & residence church - a UNESCO world heritage site
• Fortress Marienburg: castle overlooking the whole town and surrounding hills
• Old Main Bridge - Alte Main Brücke adorned with statues of saints and historically relevant figures
• Notable churches: Käppele - a small Baroque/Rococo chapel perched on a hill facing the fortress, Dom - cathedral, Schönbron Chapel, Marienkapelle, Neumünster, Stift Haug...
• Famous sights: Julius Spital - a Baroque hospital, Haus zum Falken - with its splendid rococo facade - houses today tourist information office

Nürnberg (56 km) - former Imperial City

• Kaiserburg - Imperial Castle - most famous landmark overlooking the town
• Heilig-Geist-Spital - hospital of the Holy Spirit on the banks of the river Pegnitz
• Hauptmarket with Schöner Brunnen (beautiful Fountain)-  setting for the famous Christmas market
• Churches within the city walls: St. Sebald's, St. Laurence's, Frauenkirche (Lady's Chruch) St. Martha's, St. James the Greater's, St. Gile's & St. Elisabeth's
• Albrecht Dürer Haus - famous painter
• Handwerker Hof - medieval market just inside the city walls

 Ansbach (59 km) - main capital of the district Middle Frankonia

• Residenz - Castle of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach
• Kaspar Hauser Monument
• Famous churches: St. Gumbertus and St. Johannis from the 15th century
• Historical small town with Baroque and typical Frankonian style houses

Rothenburg o.d. Tauber (63 km) -  famous well preserved medieval old town

• City Counsillor's Tavern (Ratstrinkstube) - one of the most famous buildings
• the Master Builder's House (das Baumeisterhaus) - home and studio for the stonemason Leonhard Weidmann
• Feuerleinserker - one of the city's quaintest oriel windows
• Notable buildings: the Staidt House and Courtyard (Staudtsches Haus und Hof), the horse Mill (die Rossmühle), the Jagstheimer House, Hegereiterhaus and many more

Bamberg  (40 km) - historic city center is listed UNESO World Heritage Site

• Cathedral with tombs of emperor Henry II and Pope Clement II
• Alte Hofhaltung - residence of the bishops in the 16th & 17th ceturies
• Neue Residenz - residence of the bishops after the 17th century
• Old Town Hall - build in the middle of the Regnitz River accessible by two town bridges
• Klein-Vendedig (Little Venice) - little colony of picturesque fishermen's houses
• Michaelsberg Abbey - built in the 12th century on one of Baberg's "seven hills"
• Altenburg - casle and former residence of bishops

Würzburg (55 km)

• Mainfränkisches Museum- home to the world's biggest collection of works by Tilman Riemenschneider, exhibitions include artifacts of the Franconian wine culture and a collection of traditional costumes
• Fürstenbau-Museum - documentation of restored prince bishop residence of the fortress, history of Würzburg (model of 1545 and 1945), gold jewelry and collection of liturgical vestments
• Museum im Kulturspeicher - with contemporary and European Concrete Art after 1945, works from the Age of Romanticism, the Biedemeier period, Impressionism and Espressionism
• Museum at the cathedral - features more than 700 art pieces from the last 1000 years
• Shalom Europe - a Jewish museum portraying present and traditional Jewish lifestyle and survival over the past 900 years in Würzburg
• Martin-von-Wagner-Museum - ancient Egyptian and the antiquity findings, housed in the south west wing of the Resdence Castle

Nürnberg (56 km)

• Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Germany's largest museum of cultural history, famous works of Arts include: Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Ernst Ludwig Krichner
• Neues Musum - museum for modern and contemporary art
• House of Albrecht Dürer
• Toy Museum
• Transport Museum

Ansbach (59 km) 

• Margraveal Museum - tour of the bishop's residence
• Kaspar Hauser Museum

Rothenburg o.d. Tauber (63 km)

• the Criminal Museum - gives insight into judicial punishment over the last 1000 years
• Imperial City Museum - Reichstadtmuseum with the municipal and a weapon collection
• Doll and Toy Museum
• Christmas Muesum

Bamberg (40 km)

•  Historical Museum of Bamberg
• Ludwig Colleciton
• Villa Dessauer
  

Sugenheim (18 km)

• Toy Museum housed in a small castle

Bad Windsheim (32 km)

• Open-air museum (Freilandmuseum) -  which brings together old farms and farmhouses from the area to explore