The world-famous double statue of Ernst Rietschel, dating from 1857, stands in Theaterplatz, directly in front of the German National Theatre. It depicts the two poets side by side, seemingly at the same height, and is considered the symbolic emblem of Weimar Classicism. Following the founding of the Weimar Republic in Berlin in 1918, the National Assembly convened in the German National Theatre in Weimar in 1919 to adopt Germany's first democratic constitution.

The house on Frauenplan is one of the most important sites in German literary history. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived in the baroque estate for almost 50 years until his death in 1832. Today, the building is a central part of the Goethe National Museum and belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Classical Weimar".

In 1802, Friedrich Schiller bought his house on Schillerstrasse, where he lived with his family until his early death in 1805 and where he worked on, among other things, Wilhelm Tell. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Classical Weimar".

The Weimar Princely Crypt in the Historical Cemetery in Weimar is the mausoleum of the House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, built between 1823 and 1828, and as the resting place of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, it is a central memorial site of Weimar Classicism.

This is a sprawling English-style landscape park on the edge of Weimar's old town. It stretches along the Ilm River and, since 1998, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the "Classical Weimar" ensemble. The park was designed at the end of the 18th century with significant input from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and remains largely in its historical state.

The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar is one of the world's most renowned research libraries for literary and cultural history and is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Classical Weimar".

On the nearby Ettersberg hill, the Nazis established the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1937, which today serves as a central memorial and museum. The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in July 1937. Until its liberation in April 1945, almost 280,000 people from all over Europe were imprisoned here by the Nazis, including political opponents, those persecuted as "aliens to the community," Jews, Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, and prisoners of war. More than 56,000 people died from starvation, disease, forced labor, medical experiments, and targeted killings. After the Second World War, the Soviet occupying forces used the site as "Special Camp No. 2" from 1945 to 1950. In this internment camp, approximately 28,000 people were imprisoned without due process, of whom more than 7,000 died as a result of the conditions of imprisonment.