Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

An alchemist's "magic door" stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."