The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

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

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

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.

A perfectly circular stronghold constructed in the 10th century is now a nucleus of Viking culture housing a museum, village, and reenactment of an epic Viking battle.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

A natural wonder in south Denmark.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.