With more than 50 museums, 45 theatres and around music venues and clubs, Hamburg has quietly grown into a cultural mecca almost on a par with Berlin. In January the city even celebrated the opening of one of the largest and most acoustically advanced concert halls in the world, the Elbphilharmonie — a major coup. Done something on this list and loved it? You can also find out more about how Time Out selects the very best things to do all over the world. However, with lively restaurants, bars and clubs mixed in with all the strip clubs, sex shops and brothels, this part of St Pauli is also one of the buzziest areas for eating, drinking and live music, too.