A memorial for a young woman and her ghost, which are claimed to have caused countless deathly shipwrecks.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

This bakery and museum offers tours of the tastes and mythology of Aachen's signature spice biscuit—just don't ask for the recipe.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

One of the few places of its kind, this space research center sits deep in the countryside of Matera.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

The former atelier of Mario Cassisa is a treasure trove of paintings, sculptures, and artist books.

Turtles swim in a pond surrounding a classical temple in this lush park in Vicenza.

This medieval castle was reconstructed by Carlo Scarpa.

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

This crystal clear water basin feeds the Lao river and powers a hydroelectric power plant.

Just one of the Italian corridors vying for the title of the country's narrowest.

This megalithic tomb was crafted by a mysterious civilization that settled the island of Pantelleria.