Each story is rooted in real local history and landmarks
A child discovers underground Roman baths hidden beneath Baden's modern thermal spa Fortyseven. Slipping through a crack in the ancient tiles, they meet a Roman child from Aquae Helveticae and experience a day of bathing, games, and wonder in the steaming 47-degree waters two thousand years ago.
In the old Tagsatzung hall of the Baden Rathaus, the heraldic animals of the Swiss cantons come alive at night and hold their own parliament. A child stumbles into their heated debate and must mediate disputes between bears, bulls, and ibexes -- learning the art of compromise that held Switzerland together.
A child hiking to the Ruine Stein encounters a Habsburg page trapped since the siege of 1415. The ghost boy does not know that six centuries have passed. Together they explore modern Baden, and the child helps him understand that peace, not conquest, is what makes the town thrive today.
A child finds a dusty notebook filled with sketches by Brown and Boveri in a Baden attic. Following the diagrams, the child builds a magical machine from pieces of Baden's landmarks -- a gear from the clock tower, a spring from the thermal baths, a stone from Ruine Stein -- and discovers the spark of invention that transformed a spa town.
Based on the real Chrueziberg legend, a child ventures into the eerie Teufelskeller rock formations and discovers a petrified princess among the 20-metre stone towers. To free her, the child must solve riddles set by the hill spirits in a forest that has kept its secrets for 100,000 years.
It is 1847, and a child boards Switzerland's very first train from Zuerich to Baden, racing against a friend on horseback. Through the windows, they watch the countryside blur past at breathtaking speed, arriving just in time to taste the famous Spanisch Broetli pastry that gave the railway its beloved nickname.
Each night at midnight, the St. Nepomuk statue on the Holzbruecke whispers a riddle to anyone brave enough to listen. A child follows the clues through Baden's moonlit Altstadt -- past the Stadtturm, through the Loewenbrunnen square, into the Sebastianskapelle -- to uncover a hidden treasure the bridge saint has guarded since 1707.
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