A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

A tilted half-timbered house from 1672 is built into a salvaged segment of a medieval wall.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

A monument to the man who almost killed Hitler.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

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

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

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

A stunning two-story timepiece within a medieval Brick Gothic church.

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

The stones of this formerly witch-obsessed castle were used to build a church.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

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

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

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

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.