Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

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

The world's only silo that was topped by two revolving restaurants has unfortunately been demolished.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

The real life town from the Pied Piper of Hamelin has a mechanical puppet show that retells the famous story many times a day.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

Striking occult iconography on a medieval German church.