Artist Diego Morlin's war between the natural and human worlds is a wanderer's delight.

Devilish masks, handicrafts, and pieces of old buildings create a snapshot of life in a historic Alpine region.

A giant owl named Rocco oversees mythical woodland creatures along these charming mountain trails.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

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

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.