Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

Crammed inside this grounded passenger plane is a bar that was once a Communist hang out and is now a ratty relic.

The deepest sinkhole in Central Europe comes with a grisly tale and an unusual nickname: “The Stepmother Abyss.”

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.