Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A 12th-century fortress containing some of Berlin's oldest buildings.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.