Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

The history of German architecture is explored across this fairy-scale mini-city.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

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

A Faraday Cage protects cars from a nearby high-power transmitter.

This giant glowing "beanpole" adds much-needed pops of color to an otherwise drab power plant.

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.

Final resting place of the humble physicist who discovered X-rays, and made the invisible visible.

An extraordinary mechanical calculator designed by the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

An engineering wonder at Pillnitz Castle protects a precious 230-year-old flowering shrub.

A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

A graveyard and memorial chapel for victims of leprosy.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

This German art chapel is perfect for those who like their worship hard, modern, and utterly alien.