A Dutch clog company in the town of Zaandam loves the wooden shoes so much it made a museum for them.

Sail in for a ’dam good slice.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A series of haunting wooden totems are hidden in the woods surrounding a German environmental center.

The great Danube river starts here.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Ugly 18th-century dwarf statues living in a perfectly landscaped Austrian garden.

The largest ice cave in the world is thought to be the entrance to hell according to Austrian legend.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

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

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

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

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

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.