World's only telecommunication tower with a wooden pinnacle.

Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

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

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

Epicurean and holy traditions converge in what may be the oldest restaurant in Europe.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

This medieval church in a small Austrian village is home to a 700-year-old Mickey Mouse lookalike.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

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

Famous landmarks and structures from across Italy fill this miniature park.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung reported a paranormal experience after visiting this mosaic-lined Roman baptistry.

This 6th-century church has the largest and best-preserved collection of Byzantine mosaics outside Constantinople.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

A medieval, mosaic-lined baptistry built by a heretical Christian sect.

Legend has it that any woman who kissed this statue would soon be married.