Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

The Renaissance-era courthouse is a relic from the fortified town's centuries of Venetian rule.

Croatia's "hairy stone" fortress is one of the most well preserved Istrian castles.

Inside this small chapel tucked away in the forest is one of the most well-preserved Danse Macabre frescos.

Island wonderland for communist autocrats.

One of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is still used today, but for less brutal events.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.

Beer lovers thirsty for knowledge can now visit a museum devoted to the world's largest hop-growing region.

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

This medieval cathedral houses stained-glass windows featuring saints and pretzels.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

A steam powered train that runs on city streets.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

The great Danube river starts here.

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.

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

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

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

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