The excellent Swiss museum of witchcraft is led by a modern witch.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

What this Good Friday parade lacks in baroque filigree it makes up in somber gothic imagery.

Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

The last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe is remembered in this Swiss museum.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.

This temple to the sturm and drang of Richard Wagner contains a dragon's cave and reptile zoo full of living "dragons."

A unique hanging cable-car navigates through Dresden, the oldest suspension railway in the world.

This German version of Universal Studios holds a vault of treasures from the NeverEnding Story.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

No need to strap in for a "ride" on this walkable roller coaster.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.