Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

This magnificent church allows travelers along one of Germany's busiest roadways a chance to rest and reflect.

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

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The largest treasure hoard in Europe is contained in a castle that was bombed out during World War II.

The great Danube river starts here.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

Explore the complex ecology of this multifaceted nature preserve by riverboat.