A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

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

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A man-made slag heap that you can "ski" down, and is home to the world sandboarding championships.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

One of the largest caves in the world open to the public.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

Large Hadron Collider and the Birthplace of World Wide Web.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

The highest waterfall in Italy is only "turned on" five times a year.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.