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

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

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

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

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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

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

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

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

This bushy bug is one of the unsanctioned public sculptures that have survived in Regina.

The ruins of this Alaska gold mine form a gorgeous ghost town.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.