A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

This 700-year-old Cyprus castle is the birthplace of the world's oldest wine, said to be toasted by Richard the Lionheart at his wedding.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

When a massive landslide hit one of the world's tallest dams it created a tragic environmental disaster.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

This winding road through an Italian canyon may be the most scenic drive in the world.

This Italian foot path winds through the mountains via 52 individual tunnels.

The skulls and bones of thousands of soldiers line the walls of this small Italian chapel.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.