Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

A remarkable two-country morph, this town is part of Germany legally but is by all other measures Swiss.

Germany has its very own Centralia, whose spark remains attributed to "spontaneous combustion."

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This German "living museum" is maybe a bit too immersive.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

A Nazi concentration camp and Anne Frank's place of death.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

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

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.