This historic funicular system combines the old with the new while offering delightful views over the surrounding valley.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.

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

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

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

In a grove of fast growing walnut trees outside Paris, Illinois, a marker shares the story of a fictional road building culture.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.