The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

The final resting place of many of Germany's most famous communists.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

A city's controversial tribute to its founder depicts townspeople flashing their bare behinds.

A museum honoring Germany’s cucumber mecca offers a great dill of gherkin history.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

The Iowa state contender for largest pan in the world oddly only comes in second or so.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

These jeweled relics have a scandalous and contested past.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.

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

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

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

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

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