A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

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

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

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

Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

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

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

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