Fernsehturm Stuttgart

Designed by bridge-builder Prof. Fritz Leonhardt and built to its 217m height in 1956, this was the daddy of them all – the first in the world. A viewing terrace at 150m is speedily serviced by two ear-popping lifts and gives great views over the city and across the fertile fields growing, among other things, filderkraut (a strange cabbage unique to this area). On good days you can see the Swiss and Austrian Alps. Primafila restaurant at the base and Panorama Café below the platform.