To both Frankfurt-Hahn Airport on the Hunsrück and the spa town of Bad Bertrich in the Voreifel it is half an hour's drive.

Up in the Hunsrück lies the smallest Stadtteil, Althaus, which is right at the town limit, next to Tellig.

The town has also distinguished itself with the establishment of many businesses, particularly in the outlying centre of Barl up in the heights.

Also, there once stood on the Petersberg (mountain, now called Marienburg) a church consecrated to Saint Peter.

The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments: Saint Peter's Catholic Parish Church in Zell has a reliquary shrine from the time between 1180 and 1190 from Limoges with a container for Saint Peter's bones.

In the outlying centre of Kaimt, the new parish church, Saint James's, was built about 1968; the old churchtower was preserved.

There are a side altar and a tabernacle with a Christ torso from the 13th or 14th century, the time of transition from Romanesque to Gothic, probably of the Riemenschneider school.

In the parish hall, remnants of mediaeval wall paintings have been preserved, and the old dormitory's roof frame in the monastery wing, which is not open to the public, is said to be one of the few mediaeval roof constructions still preserved in Germany.

Winegrowing furthermore also furnishes the groundwork for another industry, tourism, which is also of great economic importance.

In the outlying centre of Barl, many retail businesses with large floor areas have set up shop.

The town's link to the Deutsche Bahn railway network with InterCity and Intercity-Express service is through the station in the neighbouring municipality of Bullay on the Koblenz—Trier line, about 7 km away.

There are landing stages for international water transport on the Moselle, and Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is roughly a half hour's drive away.