This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

This massive statue is the personification of Bavaria and the first colossal statue of the modern period composed of bronze.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

One of the most easily accessible examples of the rare 1960s UFO houses.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.

Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.

The world's largest wooden structure.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.