Art and a pun, all in one.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.