Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

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

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.

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

This painted Lego bridge is the product of over a century of locomotive history.

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

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

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.

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

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

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

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

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

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

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

Ruins of a German Castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.