Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

An Irish cemetery filled with victims of political strife and violent conflict, including the grave of Bobby Sands.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

An electrical pylon under whose legs a normal gauge train can run.

A distinctive former power plant turned university lecture hall looks like it could make you breakfast.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Annual technopop celebration of peace and love.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

The world's most important buildings shrunk to a tiny size.

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

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.