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

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

One of Chile's most active volcanoes is riddled with beautiful caves.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

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

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.