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He should definitely go to Innsbruck, beautiful train journey, & while there, take the strassenbahn out to Solbad Hall. It is a mediaeval town with an incredible cathedral with all sorts of silver encrusted skulls & bones etc from saints. Since it is mostly inhabited by Turkish Gastarbeiters, the mediaeval ambience is accentuated by the aromas from restaurants etc.. I lived in Innsbruck in 1971, & worked as a waiter in a restaurant on Marie-Therese Strasse, the main street. Actually, the wonderful thing about Garmisch is it is so close to Italy, & its only a couple of hours to take a trip over the alps to any of the little mediaeval towns in Sud Tyrol, like Chiusa(Klausen), Bressanone(Brixen), virtually any of these towns has ancient buildings, & best of all terrific food & wine.

He could even zip over to Paris. I live there and drove to GAP in February. It only took me 10 hours. For that matter, he could "European capital"  hop from Munich on very cheap flights or get a special train pass for those 2 months since he is still considered a student as an intern. The options are endless, too numerous to mention here. He could even call me... (33 1 45 67 21 81) I used to be a tour guide for AFRC in the early 70's and have many suggestions. I'd love to help your son.