As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

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

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

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

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

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

Berlin's old airport.

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

A historic steam train meanders along one of the most scenic rail routes in Germany's Black Forest.

Inside this German disco, visitors can take a literal ride on the dance floor.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

This inconspicuous pharmacy went down in history as the first gas station in the world after fueling the first road trip ever taken.

This bomb was once used as a church after it failed to detonate.

Explore this medieval cathedral by trying to spot all the malevolent monsters hiding in its beautifully colored windows.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.