An awesome site - really interesting and quite unique. I don't know how famous it is, but I'm surprised there aren't more visitors.

While it may be a ‘museum’ these days, a visit to Rammelsberg feels more like a journey inside a recently abandoned mine – and that’s why it’s such a great experience. The underground tunnels have been maintained but not renovated or modernised for visitors. It is an authentic look inside centuries of industry.

You can only see inside the mines as part of a tour. There are different options to choose and you can combine them to get a full experience. It might start with the train journey into the heart of the mountain and then gradually you can see the different stages of the work that occurred here. There are more recent tunnels with mechanical equipment and, as you go further, there are older tunnels, clearly rough cut, where wooden systems with pulleys and swings were built to help with the process. The way that large wooden wheels used natural water flow to power operations is really quite ingenious.